DOD: Maritime Security Key To Broadening U.S.-Indian Defense Ties

摘要

The United States views maritime security as potentially the most significant area for deepening defense cooperation with India, a country with coastal concerns about piracy, China's growing navy and the prospect of natural disasters like the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, according to a U.S. defense official.rnThe U.S. government witnessed "a lot more energy" from the Indian side to cooperate on counterterrorism following 2008's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and began to work with Indian counterparts to improve their littoral security, the defense official told Inside the Pentagon in an interview.