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2007-04-20 India-Pakistan

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Posted by John Frum 2007-04-20 07:41|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 two bright points in Asia,

1) The defense establishments of both India and the USA get it. Our mutual interests are strengthened and force multiplied together.
It's a natural given the current and future power struggle in Asia.
Our respective defense establishments seem light years ahead of our elected politicians.

2) Japan's willingness to carefully expand their role with us regarding China and Korea. Their growing role makes the bitter pill called NORK seem a little less bitter.

Posted by RD">RD 2007-04-20 13:34|| 2007-04-20 13:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Indian Officials Favor U.S. Concept of Thousand-Ship Navy

Officials here speculate that India would find it easier to participate in the U.S.-proposed thousand-ship navy than other more formal coalitions.

Adm. Michael Mullen, the U.S. Navys chief of naval operations, discussed the concept of a broad coalition of friendly navies on April 18 during his visit here following this years Exercise Malabar. Ships and troops of the Indian Navy and U.S. Pacific Command conducted the annual exercises April 6-11 off Japan.

The thousand-ship navy is an attractive concept for India because of its lack of formalities, a Defence Ministry official here said.
India is already working towards a formal maritime security arrangement with the United States, and participation in the thousand-ship navy could be part of that, the ministry official said.
However, it is not clear whether the maritime cooperation agreement would come in the form of India joining the Washington-sponsored Proliferation Security Initiative, Container Security Initiative Regional Maritime Security Initiative or the thousand-ship navy effort.

The Indian Navy would find it easier to participate in the thousand-ship navy concept as it has no commander, and as such the informal coalition would not be commandeered by the United States, an Indian Navy official said.

Posted by John Frum 2007-04-20 16:22|| 2007-04-20 16:22|| Front Page Top

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