Strategic culture alien to India

The flip-flops on matters strategic, our response to the Chinese belligerence in Ladakh, cutting of subsidies (and its subsequent reversal) to Bhutan and our discomfiture in importing oil at cheaper rates from Iran due the danger of annoying America have brought to fore the oft-repeated doubt, “Does India have a strategic culture?” The Economist, in a cover page story a couple of months ago, said “India’s lack of strategic culture hobbles it ambition to be a force in the world”. If that was not enough to hurt our pride then the caricature on its cover page made one cringe — a cat (India) looking in the mirror seeing itself as a tiger!

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