Starting today and for three weeks, in India, the Balanced Iroquois, exercise involving the country's anti-terrorism units and American green caps. US special forces have already participated in an exercise with Indian counterparts as part of the annual maneuver Vajra Prahar, while regular troops have already met in the Yudh Abhyas.
They write fromIndian Express. "India and the United States collaborate intensely on counterterrorism, as happened after the attack in a police station in the district of Gurdaspur, in Punjab, last July. By decoding the GPS captured by terrorists, the FBI managed to track down terrorists from Pakistan. The night vision device, captured by terrorists in Gurdaspur, was also traced by the Pentagon (it had been lost in a battlefield in Afghanistan) ".
The Indian government has formed the National Security Guard of the 51 ° Special Action Group in the 1984, in response to the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by two of his Sikh bodyguards. Murder took place in retaliation following the Operation Blue Star, in June of the 1984, when the Indian army attacked the sacred temple the Golden Temple of the Sikhs in Amritsar. The Indian unit is modeled on the German GSG-9.
The nickname of the Indian special departments is "Black Cat Commandos" because of their black uniforms. The United States and India have no formal military alliance, but this does not seem to slow down the relationship between the special operations forces of the two countries.
India, in the 2014, has spent in the Defense as much as Italy and Israel put together: 46 billion dollars (budget growing). With the fourth most powerful army in the world (1,3 million soldiers and 2 millions of reservists), Indians do business with the military industries of half the world. From Russia to Italy, from France to China, from Israel to Great Britain.
Beyond what one can say diplomatically to "put down the masses", industries "love" doing business with Indians. Which is why, despite everything, the West turns a blind eye when it comes to India.
