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Thank you for highlighting his list of some articles. I'll definitely go through these as well.
He is not the only one who talks about Indian aspirations of IOR domination and a blue water navy. After all why would you want a three aircraft carrier and 6-9 nuclear subs navy with over 140 surface ships and an amphibious brigade - obviously not for anti-piracy operations. You need to read the statements of your naval chiefs and the maritime time strategy.
And don't criticise good analysts because you don't agree with what they write.
Your last point is incessantly being raised in the manner by Indian posters and I was saying the same thing.
Discuss india, when we are discussing India and don't qualify it by saying hey it happens in other places as well.
The acquisition of tools for naval power projection, is a more recent phenomenon. The author, who you cited, cites the deployment of US 5th and 7th fleet in the region as factors that undermined "indian aspirations". The realpolitiks of US-India relations aside, the 5th and he 7th were deployed at a time when the indian navy was barely a brown water force, whose influence and aspirations, apparently were undermined.