Describing the increasing Indo-US military cooperation as "positive", a top Pentagon official said the growing defence links reflects the continuing and emerging relationship between the two nations. "I think there's a very positive and growing relationship between the two countries. And I think that's a very good thing," Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs Admiral Mike Mullen said. "India is providing not just for its own people a growing economic engine which, again, I think is good not just locally, but also globally," he said at the Washington Foreign Press Centre.
Mullen noted that recent years have witnessed an increase in military-to-military contacts between the US and India. "And I think that's positive. So I'm actually very positive about the continuing and emerging relationship between the United States and India," Admiral Mullen said.
| When historians write the book on George W. Bush, one of the things that will feature prominently, though overlooked today, is the reproachment and alliance with India. It's going to pay dividends over the next half-century and beyond. |
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