{"id":241095,"date":"2023-05-05T20:28:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T14:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=241095"},"modified":"2023-05-05T20:28:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T14:58:31","slug":"indo-pacific-naval-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indo-pacific-naval-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Indo-Pacific naval strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cIndo-Pacific naval strategy\u201d <\/strong>published in the \u201cBusiness Standard\u201d <\/strong>on 5th May 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- International relations<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>– Issues related to Indian maritime strategy<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>– The article explains the reason for neglect of maritime diplomacy. It explains the importance of the Indo-Pacific for Indian maritime strategy.<\/p>\n

What are the aims of New Delhi\u2019s Indo-Pacific policy? <\/strong><\/h2>\n

India is safeguarding the world\u2019s sea lines of communications<\/strong>. India is seen in the role of \u201cnet security provider\u201d<\/strong>. There is fighting piracy threats, sea-based terrorism, smuggling, and fishing. It is providing humanitarian aid, disaster relief and search and rescue. <\/strong><\/p>\n

India also has a huge diaspora<\/strong> working and remitting money from the Gulf. In case of emergency, India has evacuated its citizens.<\/strong> India supports its overseas citizens on its own dollar.<\/p>\n

India foots its own bill for overseeing the Indian Ocean. In addition, New Delhi currently provides $18 billion dollars in lines of credi<\/strong>t for development projects in littoral states. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Why was there a delay in developing India\u2019s maritime diplomacy and Indo-Pacific policy?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

New Delhi was preoccupied northwards<\/strong>. New Delhi\u2019s strategic attention<\/strong> remained on China and Pakistan. The four wars fought against these two adversaries reinforced its \u201ccontinental mindset\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It was shaped by the historical experience<\/strong> of centuries of invasions from Central Asia<\/strong>. In the 19th century, there was the Great Game<\/strong>. Britain and Russia competed for influence in Central Asia, Asia Minor and to the borders of British India. <\/strong><\/p>\n

This \u201ccontinental outlook\u201d<\/strong> is deeply entrenched in New Delhi. This is despite the fact that most Central Asian invaders were assimilated into India.<\/p>\n

However, sea-borne colonial powers repatriated Indian wealth to Europe, and completely destroyed the small-scale Indian economy. It taught India a valuable lesson about the criticality of maritime power. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Britishers believed that the Indian Navy should limit itself to the defence of the British Commonwealth.<\/strong> This view prevailed because New Delhi\u2019s precarious finances<\/strong> made it dependent upon Britain for warships.<\/p>\n

The decision to buy a Royal Navy light aircraft carrier, HMS Hercules<\/strong> Shaped India\u2019s Navy decision making. The INS Vikrant was commissioned in 1961.<\/p>\n

In 1962, the year after INS Vikrant was commissioned, China defeated India heavily. That reinforced India\u2019s continental mindset.<\/strong> It led to army and air force modernisation and marginalised the navy. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Its share of the defence budget, which had tripled from 4% in 1950-51, to 12%in 1959-60 was back to 4% after the war.<\/p>\n

What is the current outlook of the Indian navy?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

During the 1960s and 1970s, New Delhi realized that an economically declining Britain<\/strong> was an inadequate partner<\/strong>. The Soviet Union supplanted the UK as its principal supplier of warships, technology, and design expertise. <\/strong><\/p>\n

American design influence<\/strong> will begin shaping the Indian Navy\u2019s aircraft carriers. The first of the two indigenous carriers, INS Vikrant, are based on Russian design. But a second indigenous carrier, INS Vishal<\/strong>, will draw heavily on the US carrier philosophy.<\/p>\n

So, the Indian Navy\u2019s Sea control strategy is likely to be based on three aircraft carriers<\/strong>, with two of them operational at any given time.<\/p>\n

Each will be at the centre of a carrier battle group drawn from a total fleet of about 175 ships, including about 50 capital warships and about 600 naval aircraft, with about 100 of them based at sea.<\/p>\n

Today, the navy has achieved significant headway in heavy engineering skills.<\/strong> The navy learnt the art of integrating diverse weapon systems<\/strong>, onto multi-role warships.<\/p>\n

For example, in the Shivalik-class frigates, which began entering service in 2009, the navy integrated Russian Shtil anti-air missiles, Russian Klub anti-ship cruise missiles, the Israeli Barak-1 missile defence system, and the Italian Oto Melara 76-millimetre super rapid gun mount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cIndo-Pacific naval strategy\u201d published in the \u201cBusiness Standard\u201d on 5th May 2023. Syllabus: GS2- International relations Relevance– Issues related to Indian maritime strategy News– The article explains the reason for neglect of maritime diplomacy. It explains the importance of the Indo-Pacific for Indian maritime strategy. What are… Continue reading Indo-Pacific naval strategy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,212],"class_list":["post-241095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}