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India and Pakistan in crisis: lessons for Canberra's evolving defence relationship with New Delhi
The India-Pakistan crisis reminds Australia that it ignores security issues in the subcontinent at its peril. While Australia's growing defence relationship with India tends to focus on the maritime domain, India also has continental challenges, not just along its border with nuclear-armed Pakistan but also China. What lessons can Australia draw from the most recent India-Pakistan episode - and where should Canberra's defence relationship with New Delhi go from here? Casting forward, strategic and defence analyst, Kim Heriot-Darragh, draws on the recent report he co-authored for the Australia India Institute, anchored by his experience of India (and Afghanistan)
India and Pakistan in crisis: lessons for Canberra's evolving defence relationship with New Delhi
The India-Pakistan crisis reminds Australia that it ignores security issues in the subcontinent at its peril. While Australia's growing defence relationship with India tends to focus on the maritime domain, India also has continental challenges, not just along its border with nuclear-armed Pakistan but also China. What lessons can Australia draw from the most recent India-Pakistan episode - and where should Canberra's defence relationship with New Delhi go from here? Casting forward, strategic and defence analyst, Kim Heriot-Darragh, draws on the recent report he co-authored for the Australia India Institute, anchored by his experience of India (and Afghanistan)
