CHENNAI： A section of the confidential Henderson Brooks report that critically reviewed India's defence preparedness and strategies during the 1962 war with China has been released online by Australian journalist Neville Maxwell。

　　While the report may not contain significantly new revelations about the poor state of India's forces during the war， it discusses "how the Army was ordered to challenge the Chinese military to a conflict it could only lose，" according to Maxwell， a retired foreign correspondent who was based in Delhi at the time of the war。

　　The report was authored by Lieutenant General Henderson Brooks and Brigadier P S Bhagat， then commandant of the Indian Military Academy， soon after the war。 It was commissioned by Lt General J N Chaudhuri who had just taken over as chief of Army staff in 1962。

　　机密的亨德森布鲁克斯报告批判性的回顾了印度1962年与中国交战时的防卫准备和战略，该报告的一部分被澳大利亚记者麦克斯韦尔公布到网上。

　　麦克斯韦尔是一名退休的外国通讯记者，战争期间他正驻德里。报告也许不包含有关印度军队战时糟糕状况的重大新启示，但是讨论了“（印度）军队是如何被命令挑战中国军队，直至发生一场必输的冲突。”

　　该报告是受刚刚于1962年接任印度陆军参谋长的J N Chaudhuri中将委托，由亨德森布鲁克斯中将和时任印度军事学院院长P S Bhagat准将在战后不久撰写的。