Washington, July 01: The level of military engagement between India and the United States at present was unthinkable in the mid-80s, a top US military official has said.
Commander of the US Pacific Command Admiral Timothy Keating, who returned from a trip to India a few weeks ago, said the Indian government is more willing to talk about engagement and partnership with the United States than they were in the mid-’80s.
“They are exercising with us on a much more robust basis — we just concluded a trilateral exercise; unthinkable in the ’80s — Japan, United States and India in the Sea of Japan,” Keating said at a meeting of the Atlantic Council, a US think-tank.
“It was a fairly spirited, high-end technical exercise, he said, adding, “we weren’t just doing division tactics; we were exercising weapons and techniques and procedures that are pretty high-end”.
–PTI