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India Strategically Loses Sri Lanka Due to Ambivalent Policies
Sri Lanka inflicted a crushing military defeat on the LTTE insurgency which plagued the island nation for nearly twenty five years. LTTE Chief Prabhakaran and the entire hierarchy of the LTTE now stood decimated. In this hour of Sri Lanka' magnificent victory, India as a regional power with significant strategic stakes in Sri Lanka should have stood out as a significant contributory power to this victory.
In a strange twist of strategic irony, it were Pakistani supplied tanks, reportedly Pakistani piloted fighter aircraft and Pakistani supplied ammunition which paved the final victorious assault by Sri Lankan Armed Forces on the LTTE strongholds. In a further strategic irony, Sri Lanka stood politically emboldened by China' political support to ignore UN and Indian advice for a last minute ceasefire.
India thus stood lost out strategically in Sri Lanka mainly due to her ambivalent foreign policy where Tamil Nadu' domestic politics were allowed by the Congress Government to dominate India' strategic interests pertaining to Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka over the years was pleading with India for Defence Cooperation & also for military supplies to combat its long drawn out counter-insurgency operations against the LTTE. India kept dithering on the issue as the Congress Government did not want to lose the political support of the Tamilian DMK coalition partner which would then have led to the fall of the Government.
Seemingly, in sheer exasperation, the Sri Lanka Government turned to Pakistan and China to fill the strategic void which India' flawed foreign policy had caused.
India Strategically Loses Sri Lanka Due to Ambivalent Policies by Dr. Subhash Kapila
Sri Lanka inflicted a crushing military defeat on the LTTE insurgency which plagued the island nation for nearly twenty five years. LTTE Chief Prabhakaran and the entire hierarchy of the LTTE now stood decimated. In this hour of Sri Lanka' magnificent victory, India as a regional power with significant strategic stakes in Sri Lanka should have stood out as a significant contributory power to this victory.
In a strange twist of strategic irony, it were Pakistani supplied tanks, reportedly Pakistani piloted fighter aircraft and Pakistani supplied ammunition which paved the final victorious assault by Sri Lankan Armed Forces on the LTTE strongholds. In a further strategic irony, Sri Lanka stood politically emboldened by China' political support to ignore UN and Indian advice for a last minute ceasefire.
India thus stood lost out strategically in Sri Lanka mainly due to her ambivalent foreign policy where Tamil Nadu' domestic politics were allowed by the Congress Government to dominate India' strategic interests pertaining to Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka over the years was pleading with India for Defence Cooperation & also for military supplies to combat its long drawn out counter-insurgency operations against the LTTE. India kept dithering on the issue as the Congress Government did not want to lose the political support of the Tamilian DMK coalition partner which would then have led to the fall of the Government.
Seemingly, in sheer exasperation, the Sri Lanka Government turned to Pakistan and China to fill the strategic void which India' flawed foreign policy had caused.
India Strategically Loses Sri Lanka Due to Ambivalent Policies by Dr. Subhash Kapila
