Pakistan to watch out as Indian Military re balance the global defence ties
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NEW DELHI - Indian Military re balancing the global defence ties with the Super Powers.
India is preparing to conduct wide-ranging military exercises with the United States and Russia in November-December at a time when US-Russia ties are severely strained and New Delhi is caught in a balancing act between the two countries keeping its strategic interests in mind, two officials familiar with the move said, Hindustan Times has reported.
The exercises with the two countries will be conducted in a tri-service format (involving their armies, navies and air forces) -- for the first time with the US and the second with Russia. The first India-US tri-services military exercise named Tiger Triumph will be held in November off India’s east coast, while the Indra drills with the Russians will be staged off the west coast in December, said one of the officials cited above.
“The upcoming exercises will illustrate that India is guided by its own national interests and the ties with the US and Russia are independent of the bilateral relationship between the two powers,” said the second official.
The existing military exercises between India and the US are army-to-army, navy-to-navy and air force-to-air force. Russia is the only country with which India has held a joint tri-service exercise so far — the first of these was held in Vladivostok in October 2017.
