The Missing Piece in America’s China Strategy Is India
The U.S. must take steps to make it easier to cooperate with India in defense as a counterweight to Beijing.
U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a bilateral meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, February 14, 2025. Credit: The White House via Flickr
On India's southern coast, in a workshop that would not look out of place in an American suburban garage, we recently watched a three-year-old company build drones by hand. The founders were engineers in their twenties. Their airframes were assembled from commercial components. Their software stack was written in-house. The drones they were building, prototypes with military applications, cost pennies on the dollar compared to anything the Pentagon buys for the same mission.
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