evidence: According to Gupta’s account, the site of the standoff was about 30 kilometers away from India’s Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) military base, the northernmost outpost and an Advanced Landing Ground. Located in the far east of the Karakoram mountain range, DBO lies at the intersection of two disputed areas. It is on the eastern edge of the Siachen glacier, on which Indian and Pakistani troops strive to maintain their positions under extreme conditions. On the other side, a dozen kilometers away, is Aksai Chin, a region disputed between China and India. The Depsang plains lie south of DBO in a strategic area that the military refers to as Sub-Sector North (SSN). Control over the Depsang plains is vital to the defense of Ladakh as they straddle the Darbuk–Shyok–DBO road, an all-weather supply line from Leh to the final SSN outpost at DBO.