In this Sandy Wars episode, Colonel Pradeep Saxena (R), as the-then second in command (2i/c) of 244 Medium Artillery Regiment deployed at the LAC north of Tawang, describes to military historian and India Sentinels’ strategic affairs editor Sandeep Mukherjee the background to the flare up north of Tawang in 1986. This was the culmination of three years of Indian assertiveness in reclaiming its 1962 line of actual control (LAC) in Nefa.