6. India
One of our newest allies is India. As one of the members of the Quad security partnership, the world’s largest democracy is continuing to expand its security connections with the US. Ever since the President George W. Bush administration, India has worked alongside the US in bolstering its partnership as being a bulwark to Chinese expansion in the region. And by the time Obama sat in the Oval Office, India signed agreements on defense logistics and technology, making them a major defense partner.
In 2002, the US and India started doing joint land-warfare maneuvers in an effort to grow defense and security cooperation between our two nations to protect our strategic interests in the region. Our joint co-operation with India only grew from there. From zero in 2008, their total defense trade with the US has grown to more than $20 billion by purchasing U.S. attack helicopters, transport helicopters, UAVs, cargo planes, anti-submarine aircraft, and howitzers to bolster their modernizing military.
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