Signing the agreement ”will make the logistics of joint operations much easier and more efficient,” U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday at a press briefing with Defense Secretary Manohar Parrikar. The Logistics Support Agreement is useful when the military of these nations organizes joint training or patrols in the seas near India and vice versa, allowing free supply of warships and aircraft, including food, beverages and fuel. New Delhi: India and the United States finally signed the Basic Agreement on Trade and Cooperation (BECA) for geographical cooperation on Tuesday, the last of the three most important basic agreements between the two countries. However, the concerns of left-wing parties seem unfounded, given that recordings recorded so far by many NATO allies have shown that the mere signature of the LSA or CASA has not allowed them to identify with the us global agenda, which stems from the policy pursued by France and Germany during the US invasion of Iraq in 2004 and only in the last two weeks. when Australia (part of the U.S.-led security alliance — decided to withdraw from the quadrilateral initiative. The LSA is also financially useful for India. According to some official estimates, the LSA would save India about $20 million per war game if Indian troops participating in one of the joint military exercises with the United States on U.S. soil, such as the Red Flag War Games. Thus, the LSA works on India`s strategic and economic level. The fundamental question is whether India has the political will to establish closer relations with the United States while leaving all options open to all eventualities.
The agreements with Australia and Russia will largely be modeled on the United States, while the agreement with Japan is a broader agreement of cooperation in the field of defense, including logistics, said a second official. India has signed similar agreements with five other nations, including the United States, France, Australia, South Korea and Singapore, to provide logistical support to the defence forces. These agreements help to expand and expand the presence and operations of the Indian armed forces from the Atlantic to the Pacific. After the fall of power by the BJP government led by Narendra Modi, the first of three agreements, the Memorandum of Understanding on logistics exchange (LEMOA), was signed in 2016. This was followed by the Communication and Security Compatibility Agreement (COMCASA), signed in 2018. ”For years, there has been a huge misinformation in the Indian press about these agreements,” said Schwartz, who now works at the U.S. Business Council of India, which promotes trade relations between the two countries. ”What the signature shows is that the Modi government is willing to accept short-term political criticism and accept them, to sign these things for the longer term benefit of building defense relations with the United States.” Carter and Parrikar both sought on Monday to make it clear that the logistics agreement did not allow U.S. troops to support India.
