Tellis, Ashley J.

India’s great-power delusions: How new Delhi’s grand strategy thwarts its grand ambitions - Foreign Affairs - 104(4), Jul-Aug, 2025: p.52-67

Since the turn of the century, the United States has sought to help India rise as a great power. During George W. Bush’s presidency, Washington agreed to a major deal with New Delhi that offered support for India’s civilian nuclear program despite the country’s controversial development of nuclear weapons. Under the Obama administration, the United States and India began defense industrial cooperation that aimed to boost the latter’s military capabilities and help it project power. – Reproduced

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