Opinion: Transactional Indo-US Defence Partnership Needs To Move Beyond Buyer-Seller Dynamic

Over nearly 20 years of defence collaboration, US firms have sold defence systems to India valued at over $25 billion. However, this partnership appears to be largely one-sided.

Under the Biden administration, the India-US defence partnership has not progressed to a more integrated relationship involving joint development and production of weapon systems.

Source : PTI

Defence has emerged as the strongest pillar of the Indo-US strategic partnership. However, the nature of the relationship resembles the transactional dynamic of a buyer-seller equation. To promote the sale of American weapon systems to India, the US government has actively encouraged India to engage in various cooperation and foundational agreements, which India has accepted without hesitation. These foundational agreements have positioned India as an attractive market for US arms, even as the