Jul 19,2018 Open Forum

Balancing China & Transcending Pax-Americana: India and Japan as Emerging Strategic Bookends

In late May 2018, the Japanese press announced that Japan’s Self-Defense Forces are finalizing plans to conduct counter-terrorism exercises with the Indian army in the northeast part of India later in the year1—the first overseas combat training exercise of its kind for the traditionally homebound Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF). In July 2017, an India-Japan agreement […]

Thomas F. Lynch III

Act East Policy , Confluence of the two seas , Indo-Pacific , Look East , Malabar exercise , nonalignment strategy