Of course *China* has military ambitions.But India? India is surrounded on at least two sides by nuclear armed heathen states.India is a democratic country located in a neighborhood of punk nations.She has the right to defend herself.She has *good* reason to be frightened....*very* frightened...of at least a couple of her neighbors.
The way India would wage war against the US is to not pick up the fone when America calls for help with Windows!
Like the US in the 19th Century, India is a democracy, but like the US of that time they have their own Manifest Destiny. Get a copy of it and read it. India feels that they are entitled to the Indian Ocean and all nations that touch it. It is one of the ideological drives behind for her navy to build aircraft carriers. What does that mean for the US presence in Diego Garcia, and for the west coast of Australia???? Will Hindu nationalism wane as India becomes a more developed nation or will it still remain part of her powerful makeup. Chapter is still an open one, but one the US still needs to monitor. Articles concerning this were published during the Cold War (when India was more pro Soviet) in the US Naval Institute journals. The world is no longer bi polar, but five core nations with the capability to be a major power at the end of the this century, they are US, EU, China, India and Russia. Each with their own ambitions and interests.