[JimRed]

Every former US ship, plane or other military hardware sold to another country needs to have a secret, remotely operated self destruct device installed, so if it is turned against us we only need to push the button...

[Thrownatbirth]

I always considered the Indian Navy as blue-water capable and superior what the Chinese have now. A strong Indian Navy makes a good counterbalance to a strengthening Chinese fleet.

[gridlock]

India could be our most important global ally, after the UK. They have the same interests, by and large, and could become a real military powerhouse.

If I had to take bets over who was going to be the next military superpower, my money is on the Indians over the Chinese.

By 2003 and 2004, however, Malabar participants included such advanced American platforms as the USS Alexandria (SSN-757), a Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine...

BTW, as a complete non-sequitur, did you know the official spelling of Alexandria in Egypt is now Al Iskandariyah? All these years we all thought it was named after Alexander the Great, and it turns out it was some dumb-ass Arabic name all along. Who knew?

I wonder how long it will be before the far-Lefty City Council of Alexandria, VA changes the spelling of their city's name to follow suit...

[Wallace T.]

With the demise of Britain as a major world power and limits to American capacity on the high seas, India should fulfill an important role in the ocean named after their nation, an ocean that links the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia. It looks like the United States and Russia are competing for influence in India, an extension of the two centuries old rivalry of Russia and Britain/America in southern Asia. For all our rhetoric about democracy and freedom and that of the Muslims against Crusaders and Zionists, the conflict in the Middle East and South Asia resembles the old struggles between the Russian Tsar and the British Raj, and later, Stalin and Churchill, over Persia and Afghanistan.

[Vroomfondel]

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