Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
New Delhi will need to do more to increase its material capabilities if it wants to achieve the goal of becoming a great power by 2050.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s accomplishments in foreign policy offer hope that similar achievements can be produced at home.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for India to become a leading power represents a change in how the country’s top political leadership conceives of its role in international politics.
The Indian Air Force’s falling end strength and problematic force structure, combined with its troubled acquisition and development programs, threaten India’s air superiority over its rapidly modernizing rivals.
Diplomatic engagement with Pakistan will continue even as India keeps all its options open with respect to discretely targeting the Pakistani military and its terrorist proxies.
The United States and India are on the cusp of realizing their ambition to entrench meaningful defense cooperation despite the absence of a formal alliance.
The quality of state-society relations makes a fundamental difference in whether countries can effectively accumulate power.
The U.S.-India relationship was often distant during the Cold War, but the partnership is now critical for both countries’ strategic aims.
Defense cooperation is the cornerstone of the steadily strengthening bilateral U.S.-Indian relationship.
The deal revolutionized U.S.-India ties, which progressed so dramatically that it is often easy to forget the recrimination that dominated bilateral encounters since 1974.
