Abstract

In July–August 2005, India’s first aircraft carrier-led deployment to Southeast Asia took place. The initiative was indicative of the degree to which Asia now occupies an increasingly important place in India’s naval outlook. Its maritime doctrine, published in April 2004, conceives of the arc from the Persian Gulf to the Strait of Malacca as a legitimate area of political, military and economic interest. The Indian Navy’s prompt relief assistance to neighbouring states in the wake of the tsunami of December 2004, meanwhile, increased its confidence about undertaking a larger role in the maintenance of regional stability. The key to the Indian Navy’s new engagement of Asia lies in its assessments of and interactions with the US and Chinese navies.

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