使政治和军事完整的结合，结果让中国取得了对印度谈判的有利地位。他们用特定军事力量针对有限的军事目标让印度所谓一个新兴亚洲强权的影像破灭， 暴露出印度多种战略上的缺点。中国对印军事行动的成功也让中国的政治主张在这次短期战争中完整表达，让中国在自己预定的时间和方式结束战争，这些是中国有效的行动艺术的结果。

In the end, Chinese military commanders successfully executed operational art, merging political and military considerationsto achieve an outcome that left China in an enhanced bargaining position against India. Their selective application of military force against limited objectives destroyed the image of India as arising Asian power and exposed many of its strategic shortcomings. Successful military action against India allotted China the political initiative throughout the short war, allowing them to conclude it at the time and in the manner of their choosing, resulting from the effective application of operational art. "