As India and China get locked into tensions in the icy mountains of Eastern Ladakh, it is time to break the myth of a strong Chinese people's liberation army ground force. Now, since we know that any Sino-India confrontation will have to take place in high mountains and passes as opposed to plain battlefields, it is becoming clear that a lot will depend upon the troops strength and capability between the two armies. There is not much to distinguish between the numbers of the Indian army and the Chinese PLA ground force. But they are miles apart when it comes to the men in charge of affairs from top level commanders to lower rank troops. While the Indian army is a battle-hardened force excelling in mountain warfare, the PLA ground force has several issues to fight with, from inexperience and in subordination to corruption and lack of acclimatization. The PLA ground forces issues start with the lack of combat and war experience itself. The Chinese army does not have many exploits to boast about and hasn't fought a war since the 1979 Vietnam War. The handful of combat veterans left in the PLA ground force are also going to retire within the next few years. And then of course, the PLA ground force is plagued by its little emperors, a legacy of the misconceived one child policy of China. Chinese families are very emotional about their child since there's only one. As such, millions of children grew up believing they were little emperors. And when the PLA ground force pumps in these little emperors, they fail to mend their ways as military officers and staffers. Earlier, it was reported that excessive masturbation and addiction to video games is the reason why the physical test failure rates conducted by the PLA have hit an alarming high. The Chinese PLA is befuddled on how to handle such undisciplined soldiers from the one child generation. The PLA has been forced to resort to special training in order to straighten up spoiled soldiers. Disasters like Galwan happen when such an undisciplined force meets a formidable Indian army at the line of actual control. In fact, China had even decided to rope in mixed martial arts fighters in order to train its troops in Ladakh and perhaps face India in case of any eventuality after Chinese troops got beaten black and blue at Galwan. And then of course, the Chinese PLA remains a part of the Han Chinese dominated CCP administration. Tibetan Highlanders will never be loyal to the cause of Chinese expansionism through their own land, nor is the PLA known to have developed a strong eclimatization culture all this while. The PLA ground force has to send Han Chinese troops for manning the LAC in extreme cold weather and that too without eclimatization. Therefore, the Chinese troops remain unfit to engage in any major confrontation along the LAC in high altitude east in Ladakh or any other sector. As for India, there is a definite advantage of the Chinese PLA. For starters, India is a battle-hardened force with several decades of experience in high altitude warfare and counter insurgency operations in the Kashmir valley. Recently, two American studies busted the bubble of so-called Chinese military superiority and edge over India. The Belfast Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Boston and the Center for New American Security in Washington suggested that India maintains an edge in high altitude mountainous environments over China. Defence experts within China too echo the same sentiment in an article published by Chinese The Paper.CN in June Wang Hwoji wrote, at present the world's largest and experienced country with plateau and mountain troops is neither the US, Russia nor any European powerhouse but India. While she added, the Indian army has set up hundreds of outposts in the Siachen Glacier area with an altitude of more than 5,000 meters with 6,000 to 7,000 fighters stationed. The highest post has reached 6,749 meters. If we may add, unlike the Chinese, the Indian army is also the most experienced force when it comes to high altitude warfare in the Himalayas dating back to the 1947 and 1948 war between India and Pakistan. India also has relatively recent experience of the Kargil war, giving the Indian army first hand knowledge of how to use artillery guns and multi-barrel rocket launchers at high-alt ducs, unlike the Chinese PLA. Also, India has been manning the highest battlefield in the world, Siachen, since the valiant operation Meghdu in 1984. India recruits from the Thibhatan Highlanders in its special frontier force, a covert unit that recently showed its might in Easton Ladakh. Recently, for example, the Punjab regiment and the Bihar regiment inflicted a disproportionate high number of casualties upon the Chinese in Galwan. This is because, even apart from the Thibhatan Highlanders, a number of regiment like Ladakh scouts, the Kumao regiment, Garwal rifles and the Gorka regiment recruit heavily from the Heli areas. Other regiment also has sufficient experience of high altitude warfare. Within Easton Ladakh, the Indian army also has a strategic advantage now. The Chinese have to cross the entire Thibhatan region before they can reach Easton Ladakh, often traveling through high mountain passes. On the other hand, the Indian army finds it easier to reach the LAC at Easton Ladakh, making it easier to mobilize logistics in the region. This is also the reason why the Indian Air Force also has a strategic advantage over China. While Chinese air strips are limited in the high altitude areas of the Beth, the Western Air Command of the Indian Air Force has several bases in northern India planes, from where it can easily reach the Easton Ladakh region in case things escalate into a limited war. The print has also reported that Chinese construction activity, especially for infrastructure related to air defense networks, has also been observed in the border areas. The construction activity suggests that the IAF can exploit porosity in China's aerial surveillance along the LAC in Easton Ladakh in case of a limited confrontation between the two Asian giants. The Chinese PLA clearly has many disadvantages to handle that are both qualitative and strategic in nature. With the myth of Chinese military superiority broken, it is advantage India in Easton Ladakh.