 Henderson Brooks and Brigadier Premindra Singh Bhagat, Victoria Cross recipient and then the commandant of the Indian Military Academy.The report is said to be openly critical of the Indian political and military structure of the time as well as of the execution of operations.According to Australian journalist Neville Maxwell, the report claims that the Indian government, which was keen to recover territory, advocated a cautious policy but that the Army Headquarters dictated a policy that was militarily unsound.