India-US to build strong, strategic defence ties
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As US President Barack Obama prepares to visit India, a prominent think tank said that the two countries would build their strong bilateral defence ties based on the new strategic realities of Asia.
The defence relationship is one of the many bright spots in the overall bilateral relationship, said the National Bureau of Asian Research(NBR), a Washington-based think tank.
“It is expected that the United States and India will continue to develop a strong bilateral defense relationship, albeit one that looks less like an alliance than a partnership based on shared goals.
US and Indian armed forces will operate together more frequently, and US equipment will be purchased in larger quantities by India, in part reflecting the new strategic realities of Asia and a strengthened US-Indian relationship,” NBR said in its report on India.
As the United States and India continue to build their newly strengthened relationship, both partners face challenges in the process, it said adding that in the realm of operational co-operation, greater steps toward embracing integration that would help check maritime adventurism by any other power inevitably will breed concerns about whether Indian foreign policy remains independent.
“Similarly, agreements to provide advanced US military equipment also require agreement to US rules and practices on the use of such equipment that test Indian proprieties and will complicate India's ties with other suppliers of military equipment, including Russian and European companies," the NBR said.
Looming over these bilateral security issues are the differentiated security challenges each country faces in managing complex security relationships with Pakistan and China, it noted.
“However, bilateral co-operation on the internal challenges the Indian Armed Forces face—structural reform, domestic counterinsurgency, personnel acquisition and management reform, among others—provides opportunities that might mitigate some of the other challenges as well as help to build longer-term collaborations that will be in both countries' interests," it said.
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Obama Tweaks Same Old US
Chithra KarunaKaran EthicalDemocracy
08 Nov 2010 - 08:36
Obama Tweaks Same Old US Powerspeak During India Visit
Is there anything more exasperating and undeserved than Obama's tweaking of the same old US Powerspeak?
Brand Obama is new improved Brand Bush. Nobody in India should expect any better.
Fortunately our own leaders in India know better than to buy Brand Obama.
Here are the reasons why in India we don't buy Brand Obama:
1. The US has exploited Pakistan for 60 years ever since the John Foster Dulles State Department of the early 50's, right after Partition.
2. Pakistan, weakened at Partition, was manipulated by the US to further its own invented Cold War strategy against the former USSR. The US turned Pakistan into a dependent, occasionally defiant, but always subordinate client-state.
3. Any pragmatic initiative by India, to develop Amity and Concord with Pakistan is rendered nearly impossible by continued US manipulation of Pakistan and physical military presence in the South Asia region.
And yet, Obama is lecturing India on how to get along with Pakistan. And lecturing Pakistan how to get along with India.
That is the same old US Powerspeak with an Obama tweak.
No matter how slick his dance moves, India does not buy Brand Obama
Dr. Chithra KarunaKaran
City University of New York (CUNY)
Ethical Democracy As Lived Practice
http://EthicalDemocracy.blogspot.com
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