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.

As the report gained traction, Maxwell's website, Nevillemaxwell.com cannot be accessed anymore with tweets saying that the site had been blocked by the Indian government. A section of that report however is available right here on Rediff.com. Read