India's submarine conundrum: To go nuclear or conventional?

Within India's strategic community, a debate rages over the question of whether the Indian Navy should be going in for conventional diesel-electric submarines, or AIP vessels or SSNs

Barely a month after the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, America is making a strategic course correction, partnering two other Anglophone countries – Australia and the UK – in launching a new defence alliance in the Asia-Pacific. 

Appearing together on television on September 15, the three countries’ leaders – Joe Biden, Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison – jointly announced an “enhanced trilateral security partnership” named AUKUS (Australia – UK – US).

Signalling that AUKUS meant business, the first announcement by the three leaders was that the UK and US would provide Australia with the classified technology and wherewithal needed to