Sikkim-perched precariously between India and China-is of immense strategic importance for the defence of India. The Himalayas were once considered to be the gigantic defence line of India but the ultramodern methods of war have thwarted this concept in toto Height no more means might. The Indo-China war of 1962 made India realize the geographical and strategical importance of this Himalayan borderland Militarily, Sikkim, the royal route for Chinese Aggression, is vulnerable.