Posted on 08/22/2006 1:12:55 AM PDT by jdm
India and Russia have agreed to hold joint wargames on Russian soil next year to enhance military ties and share experience in handling low-intensity conflicts at high altitudes, Army Chief General J J Singh said here.
Singh, who is on his maiden visit to Russia, held wide- ranging talks with Chief of General Staff of the Russian armed forces General Baluyevsky and Commander-in-Chief of the Land forces Colonel General Alexei Maslov yesterday.
"We have agreed to enhance our co-operation, including joint exercises on Russian soil in 2007," he told Indian reporters here.
Describing his talks with Baluyevsky and Maslov as "meaningful," Singh said a whole range of issues of services- to-services cooperation were discussed including sharing of experience and security assessment in the neighbourhoods of Iran and the US.
"We have experience in something, like mountain combat, they have experience in cold climate combat, we can share our experience," the army chief said adding the two armies could also share their experience in combating militancy in Jammu and Kashmir and Chechnya.
Responding to a question, Singh said that he did not discuss the issue of sustained delivery of spares as it has been taken up through various channels including by the Indian ambassador in Moscow.
The army chief also declined to identify the weapons which India could be interested in acquiring from Russia, known in the past as a wholesale supplier of military hardware for the Indian army.
Russia is up to no good
dam this sucks for us!
IMO it would help if we would develop a closer relationship with Russia. We could invite Putin here and act as if we respected his leadership, even if we do have certain objections. While we watch Russia court China and other nations, we fail to go calling. I think that's a big mistake.
I have also thought that we do not show enough understanding of Russia's terrorist problem, yet expect them to identify with ours.
Closer consultation could help with this.
India and Russia (and formerly the Soviet Union) have been allies since around India's independence in 1947. Odd though, democratic India and totalitarian, Communist Russia were allies, and to counter them were the democratic United States and totalitarian, Communist China. Though the Chinese American sort of alliance was a tenuous one at that (with Taiwan and a big Communist country, etc.).
You have some anti-India agenda. I haven't seen you get your credibility right in that past debate we hade over at
http://tools.superhit.in/nph-proxy.cgi/000110A/http/www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684249/posts?page=23#23
Looks like you want to run away from one 'foot in the mouth' to another.
India's cooperation doesn't make it anti-US. We hold joint military exercises with the US as well. Besides, the US-Sino 'alliance' seems to showing off what it was worth. The Chinese are now climbing your backs getting ready to stab you hard any day now. Not every strategic tie is a "With us or against us" issue. It might even be useful to have India as a go between in case things get hot between the US and Russia sometime in the future. Certainly, you won't be getting much help from your 'allies' China and Pakistan.
As for you Pikachu, you are better off watching your Pokemon toons at home instead spewing your wad where you don't know peanuts.
Given that we have such a vested interest, these days, in India, this is not a good sign. Vladimir Putin is clearly hostile to the US and will try to gain whatever intelligence info he can pick up from the amount of IT and other work we have outsourced to India.
A strategic alliance between India and Russia means one of two things - either they are playing both sides against the middle, or America is about to be sold out "AGAIN", but one of its so-called allies.
I am not a globalist and been opposed to outsourcing sensitive work offshore for this very reason. An alliance between India and Russia, IMO, does not bode well for the US. The Indians and Russians have had close ties in the past and it was American policy to keep them at arm's length. IMO, we need to re-implement that policy before India does something that hurts us strategically. This is a bad, bad omen and no amount of pollyanna-ish stuff about globalism is good and makes economic sense and blah, blah, blah is going to save us from our own foolishness.
& how exactly does America intend to offset India???By arming an ISlamic nation,which has been China's oldest ally?????
Nearly 80% of India's weaponry comes from Russia-there is now way that the Indian military can shift to any other supplier radically for atleast 20 years.Besides putting all your eggs in an American or Russian basket is something that many countries incl. India,Greece,South Korea among others are learning to avoid.
The thing is that now India has non-aggression pacts with China and says that Taiwan belongs to the Chinese.
Also, India was given observer status in the SCO.
Non-aggression pacts with China???Care to elucidate more on that??& how many nations say that Taiwan is not part of China????
OR is it just you peddling your trash??
Hmm.. WHAT!?
Just some friendly advice to India's defense honcho.
5.56mm
Like the same fleas uncle Sam gets from lying down with folks like Pakistan
spot on
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