Indo-US Army drill postponed

[Rahul9090]

In an interesting development, the next round of Indo-US joint Army exercises — that were to take place in April this year — has been postponed by a few months. The exercises were to take place at Chaubatia in Uttarakhand in April this year but has now been postponed to July or August this year, defence sources have confirmed. Defence sources said that mutual convenience of the two sides is the major factor in the re-scheduling of the exercises and that nothing more should be read into it.
But the fact remains that ties between the two countries have nose-dived since the Winter of 2013 following the earlier arrest of Indian lady-diplomat Devyani Khobragade in the United States. Significantly, the exercises will now be held at a time when the next government will be in place in India at the Centre. The US has already begun the exercise of reaching out to major Indian Opposition leaders whom it perceives could be important figures in the formation of the next government in May this year. It is unclear whether the current frost in ties between the two countries had any role to play in the postponement of the joint exercise.
The Indian Army had conducted joint exercises in 2013 with the United States Military at Fort Bragg in the US in May, 2013. Joint military exercises between the two countries are an annual feature. India has conducted a large number of bilateral exercises with the US in the past few years involving the armies, air forces and navies of the two countries. Despite the recent irritants in ties, the US has strengthened strategic ties between the two countries.

 

[Indo-guy]

In an interesting development, the next round of Indo-US joint Army exercises — that were to take place in April this year — has been postponed by a few months. The exercises were to take place at Chaubatia in Uttarakhand in April this year but has now been postponed to July or August this year, defence sources have confirmed. Defence sources said that mutual convenience of the two sides is the major factor in the re-scheduling of the exercises and that nothing more should be read into it.
But the fact remains that ties between the two countries have nose-dived since the Winter of 2013 following the earlier arrest of Indian lady-diplomat Devyani Khobragade in the United States. Significantly, the exercises will now be held at a time when the next government will be in place in India at the Centre. The US has already begun the exercise of reaching out to major Indian Opposition leaders whom it perceives could be important figures in the formation of the next government in May this year. It is unclear whether the current frost in ties between the two countries had any role to play in the postponement of the joint exercise.
The Indian Army had conducted joint exercises in 2013 with the United States Military at Fort Bragg in the US in May, 2013. Joint military exercises between the two countries are an annual feature. India has conducted a large number of bilateral exercises with the US in the past few years involving the armies, air forces and navies of the two countries. Despite the recent irritants in ties, the US has strengthened strategic ties between the two countries.

although it's well evident that Indo-US relations have deteriorated ever since Khobragade episode exploded in a major Diplomatic tussle and there have been series of incidents thereafter that testify Indo-US relations continue to spiral downwards ...yet I would not read too much into postponement of this Indo-US army exercise ...
India will be poll bound at this time ...there may be many other million reasons to postpone exercise ( which is not a big deal ...it happens sometimes ) .

I don't think we should start seeing ghosts everywhere ...as yet !

 

[acid rain]

There's something drastically wrong with the US policy, many examples recently point towards that - the saudis, the israelis, the germans, japanese, brazilians, indians - all are pissed.