Whats Indias grand strategy?
A nation has security, Walter Lippman notes, when it does not have to sacrifice its legitimate interests to avoid war, and is able, if challenged, to maintain them by war. It must be clear to any objective observer of the trajectory of developments in this country that India does not meet these criteria, and that its leadership has not even begun to imagine the task of building them into a national vision. Indeed, for decades, India has even failed to neutralize the challenge arising out of the malevolence of a single hostile neighbour one-eight its size. The disaster of the confrontation with China in 1962 has simply been pushed out of our strategic perspectives, and the political and military leadership in the country appears to have convinced itself that shared economic interests, Chinas good intentions, and our friendly relations with Western and other powers are sufficient guarantee against any future threat from that direction. And given Chinas overwhelming size and rising power,
