Every Navy in the world wants to engage with the Indian Navy. The trend that began exactly 20 years ago, post-tsunami, is now a given in the maritime domain.
Pointing out, in an interview to Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale that the Indian Navy takes great pride as an organisation that keeps an open mind and see who’s doing what, who is better in which domain, and then try and imbibe those facets in its concept of operations, Adm DK Tripathi, Chief of the Naval Staff, was being a realist. These engagements with many partner nations and friendly navies in the Indo-Pacific, the Indian Navy has certainly expanded its horizons in the past two decades.
Most of the other navies have learned from Indian Navy too. So it’s a win win situation. Cooperation and collaboration is the only way to go forward because, no single Navy in the world can address all the maritime security challenges in vast expanse of the Indo-Pacific, as the CNS says. India’s, ambitions have also grown over these, last ten, 15 years.
India is now a vital part of the Indo-Pacific. Of course, the focus primarily remains on the Indian Ocean.As an example of India’s multi-alignment policy, the Navy recently demonstrated how it has long legs. One of its ships, from the Eastern Naval Command, was in Hawaii taking part in the, Rim of the Pacific exercise.
Almost simultaneously, another ship of the Western Naval Command was in Saint Petersburg taking part in the Russian Federation Navy Day.
That exemplified the rich sustenance and ability of the Indian Navy to talk to different partners across the globe.
