United States-India Strategic Partnership no Longer Strategic nor a Partnership by dr subhash kapila WORTH A READ.

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From: sanjeev nayyar

Food for thought 1. What are benefits from the Indo U.S. Nuclear Deal. 2. India wanted to outsource its security to Washington, its leadership unwilling to take tough decisions. 3. Point well made in art that purchases of Defence items from the U.S. come with no Off Set contracts or Technology Transfer unlike contracts with Russia/Europe.

United States-India Strategic Partnership no Longer Strategic nor a Partnership by dr subhash kapila 16/4/2013

http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/node/1240

Introductory Observations

Reviewing the US-India Strategic Partnership after more than a decade of it being in existence the regrettable conclusion reached is that expectations which India and its strategic community had invested in it have not materialised.

The United States, other than rhetoric, has not contributed in any way to reinforcing of India's security interests, raising India's political profile in South Asia or any substantial steps to assist India to emerge as a major global power.

The United States needs to shoulder the blame squarely for the same in that in the pursuit of its tactically expedient policies in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and its hedging policies towards China, the United States has missed viewing the vital and broader perspectives of India's significance on the strategic canvass of South Asia and Asia as a whole.

India is but one small blip on the United States strategic radar hovering faintly and obscurely in the distant background. Today when the United States is in a reverse reset mode on its Pakistan and Afghanistan policy formulations, India's strategic sensitivities seem once again foredoomed to be trampled on. What sort of a Partnership is this?

Contrastingly, India has not made any comparative changes in its policy approaches that could be said to have impinged on United States security interests. It is the United States which has continuously been oblivious to Indian national security interests virtually within three years of the inception of the much heralded US-India Strategic Partnership.