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India's 'Indo-Pacific' challenges

New Delhi must synergise its maritime policies with those of other littorals of the Indo Pacific

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Indian naval ships in the Arabian Sea: A steady decline in maritime capability?

Premvir Das
In recent years, the concept of Indo-Pacific, first articulated in 2009 by then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has been the subject of discussion at different strategic forums. Sometimes, the theatre has also been referred to as Indo-Asia-Pacific, but shorn of the terminology used, it represents the stretch of unbroken, largely maritime domain, running from the Gulf countries on one side to the littorals of the Western Pacific on the other. Global security concerns and interests are now getting focused on this part of the world more than on any other.
 
Several factors have led to the shift
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