Only US can
help India
The three-day
visit of U.S. Defence Secretary Ashton Carter appears
to fit into a new security paradigm that is unfurling under the Narendra Modi
government. By agreeing to sign the
Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA), India has sent out a clear
signal that it has no inhibitions about being bound in strategic engagements
with the U.S. This would
qualitatively transform India’s relations with the U.S.
Defence
Minister Manohar Parrikar and Mr. Carter have agreed to
expand collaboration under the Defence Technology and Trade Initiative, infuse
greater complexity in their military engagements and maritime exercises,
commence discussions on submarine safety and anti-submarine warfare, and
initiate a bilateral maritime security dialogue that would include diplomats
and the defence establishments.
To Know USA and
their defense regime is bit complex scenario for Indian intellectual. Hence what
India need is a team of specialized people with extraordinary instincts, people
with vision and full understanding of US defense physiology and their
psychology.
The biggest
threat for India is China. The only country that can help and has technology is
US, plus you have 3 million strong Indian Americans backing India. India is obviously
behind in military technology as compared to the US. And Russia is a third
world country that is selling technology to the Chinese.
Pick sides that
will help you; going both ways for the last 70 years and being non aligned has
not helped. Selling 16 F-16's to the Paki's is nothing, the US is trying to
manage them from the Chinese influence. If India supports US wholeheartedly, US
will never find the need of Pakistan.
In whatever way
India would like to seek collaboration with the USA the fundamental
preoccupation should be with India standing on her own strength. The foreign
and international politics of the USA will always, for the foreseeable future,
depend on what it calls its "national security".
It is true that
US has huge advantage in using Indian military base. US is trying to gain
access to our bases to overpower China in case any unforeseen war breaks out in
future. That is good for India. Only, instead of gaining access to their bases
in reciprocity, we should ask them to abandon their military support to
Pakistan.
With the
defence agreement, India is not falling into any kind of trap. The increase in
military co-operation sounds warning signals to all South Asia as China is
taking all steps to control by having a close pact with Pakistan. India can
turn to nobody else but US to protect them against two major rivals viz. China
and Pakistan. Russia will never help India when it comes to negotiating China
simply because Russia considers China as his brother.
India has the
same intention which US harbours and that is to completely surround China, in
both land and sea. India is strong enough with a
near equal population compared to China, and were we to develop scientifically
and technologically with the help of US, there is no reason for us to feel ‘insecure’
as the present day leaders think.
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