An emerging alliance with India

On June 19th I posted this: India's Bid for Naval Supremacy, Newest base most modern facility in Arabian Sea.

Kevin from Eckernet commented.......

Wouldn't worry about this too much. India buys much of it's military equipment from us....and is therefore dependent on us for help with maintenance and upgrades.

And India has long considered China it's long-term rival in the region.

Consider it a counter-weight to China.

Kevin may have made a good point. As many of us know, to this point in history, no democratic country has ever attacked another democratic country. With this in mind we have more to fear from an ever expanding communist China than we do an similarily expansionist India.

Michael Barone has an article, "An emerging alliance with India" where he writes on a positive note about a U.S. and India relationship. He scribes:

You didn't see it in the headlines this week, but it's likely to be more important in the long run than many things that received much more notice. The "it" in question is the New Framework for the U.S.-India Defense Relationship signed Monday by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Indian Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee. This agreement provides for increased cooperation on research and development of high-tech weaponry and joint and combined training exercises."

You can see the entire article here.