Trump Administration made it clear to the Congress that it's not going to back away from the sale of F-16 and F-18 Jets to India. The Developed Nation firmly believes this cooperation is gonna take the India-US Defence ties to a whole new level.
US Government believes defence cooperation with India boosts the bilateral ties as it wants India to be a net-security provider in the Indo-Pacific Region.
Why Indo-Pacific Region is so crucial? Just because, It plays a key role in global trade and commerce. Close to 50 percent of the 90,000 commercial vessels in the World & 2/3rd of traded oil is being transported through this region.
America is aware of the fact that Indo-Asia Pacific Region accounts to half of the earth's population and have some of the fastest growing economies as well. US feels cooperating with like-minded partners like India will pay dividends in future. In addition, Fight against Terrorism is in the priority list of both nations. So, US believes joint training and capacity building is necessarily to counter terrorism.
US Government believes defence cooperation with India boosts the bilateral ties as it wants India to be a net-security provider in the Indo-Pacific Region.
Why Indo-Pacific Region is so crucial? Just because, It plays a key role in global trade and commerce. Close to 50 percent of the 90,000 commercial vessels in the World & 2/3rd of traded oil is being transported through this region.
America is aware of the fact that Indo-Asia Pacific Region accounts to half of the earth's population and have some of the fastest growing economies as well. US feels cooperating with like-minded partners like India will pay dividends in future. In addition, Fight against Terrorism is in the priority list of both nations. So, US believes joint training and capacity building is necessarily to counter terrorism.