Claiming that China’s India War “puts the war in the geo-political context” of the time, Lintner debunked Neville Maxwell’s theory (in the best-selling book ‘India’s China War’) that the war was “provoked by India and (the then) Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s ‘forward policy.’”

According to Lintner, India’s ‘forward policy’ was “not much more than strengthening a couple of outposts along the Line of Actual Control.”