Indian ships and naval assets can now move across from the Pacific to Singapore, Andamans, Diego Garcia, Mauritius, Seychelles, and Djibouti, onwards to Oman.
Italy is off shoring its Mediterranean migration problem to a former colony, Libya, with the intention of preventing mostly sub-Saharan African migrants from leaving Libya’s shores for Europe.
FRENCH MILITARY CHIEF QUITS IN FEUD WITH MACRON
France’s top military officer, General Pierre de Villiers, resigned Wednesday, in response to a public feud with...
TURKISH LEADER RALLY’S SUPPORT ON ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF COUP
Hundreds of thousands of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s supporters gathered across the country to commemorate one-year since the failure of a coup designed to remove the nation’s leader from power.
The draft Seeds Bill gets the big ideas right: universal registration, traceability, real penalties. To work for Punjab, it must get federal plumbing and farmer-facing details sorted.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
It’s not simply access to various ports and bases in the Indian Ocean Region or South China Sea that would be of concern to India, India must also look at increasing its Naval platforms to match the adversarial naval power on it’s Western and Eastern fronts.
France is militarily over extended. They are unable to handle North Africa on the ground or their far flung atolls by sea. They need India too. .Just as US Australia, and Japan do. India must not compromise it’s strong relationship with Russia. It does not need to do so.
But, why is India steadfastly ignoring it’s own islands? The Lakshadweep, minicoy and other archipelagos that provide India with a potentially formidable sea fortress if mined with tiny bases and fuel-ammo-supply dumps for fast long range chopper carrying destroyers, midget attack subs and contemporary catalinas?
It’s not simply access to various ports and bases in the Indian Ocean Region or South China Sea that would be of concern to India, India must also look at increasing its Naval platforms to match the adversarial naval power on it’s Western and Eastern fronts.
France is militarily over extended. They are unable to handle North Africa on the ground or their far flung atolls by sea. They need India too. .Just as US Australia, and Japan do. India must not compromise it’s strong relationship with Russia. It does not need to do so.
But, why is India steadfastly ignoring it’s own islands? The Lakshadweep, minicoy and other archipelagos that provide India with a potentially formidable sea fortress if mined with tiny bases and fuel-ammo-supply dumps for fast long range chopper carrying destroyers, midget attack subs and contemporary catalinas?