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Posted on 09/21/2011 9:12:13 AM PDT by MBT ARJUN
In a surprise move, NATO has reportedly offered to share its ballistic missile defence (BMD) technology with India. The tentative proposal, premised on the acknowledgement of the ‘commonality of threats’ faced by NATO and India, includes the sharing of BMD technology as well as the possibility of ‘training together.’ There has yet to be any official response to this offer, but its acceptance would make India the only non-NATO ally, apart from Russia, in the alliance.
Russia’s reservations on this issue are well known, and it’s most likely that India, too, won’t be jumping at the bit. This could be attributed to at least three factors.
One, as a non-aligned country during the Cold War years, India maintained its distance from bloc politics. Though the international landscape has changed drastically since then, India has retained its policy of not entering into an alliance with any country, though New Delhi does have strategic partnerships with a record number of nations today. While warming to the United States considerably in the last half decade, India is still unlikely to enter into any arrangement that might be perceived as compromising its sovereign autonomy. It may be recalled, after all, that India hasn’t formally accepted the Proliferation Security Initiative because it’s a US-led initiative. A US-led BMD architecture, then, would also be viewed from the same perspective.
Second, while it’s true that India has been working on the indigenous development of BMD technology, and has conducted four successful interceptions since 2006, there has been no shared commonality of threats with NATO. As premised on the US missile threat assessment, threats to NATO are believed to arise from missile proliferation by problem states. BMD is seen as necessary to defend against limited ballistic missile attacks involving ‘up to a few tens of ballistic missiles.
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Ah, Tibet does not count to the Chicoms, eh?
Bad mushroom soup? or rather, waaayyy goood mushrooms?
Time to add another Chicom scalp to my collection below.
One right on this thread is clearly uncontested. My right to zot your sorry Chicom-shilling ass into next year.
And whats better then a regular troll? A zotted chicom troll! lol.
Oh ...he got zotted! Darn. LOL. If I knew I would not have bothered posting to him. Although I am surprised he lasted so long. On another thread he had basically insulted a FReeper.
Now, if he was a Chicom guy just talking about life in China, ok, but shilling for China against the US, calling the US a threat to "poor ole China" was just oo much.
I admit must it ble vary fuddy
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I’ve worked within NATO but India, and now operating in north Africa.
NATO was not designed for this crap.
Yet again the lefty idea of all joining together
Chinese and Putinista trolls have been showing up on FR in droves lately.
COMMUNIST ZOT CAT, Cannot withstand the Rebound of the USA, once we purge the Communists from OUR government!
Just as a little fanboy nitpik, it's Rebel Alliance...not Star Federation.
If you can't even write the insult correctly, you deserve to be zotted.
Been really busy at work. Bookmarked for later. Thanks, Cronos.
Btw, has there been many FR threads on British/Chinese “opium wars”?
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