Boost to India-U.S. defence cooperation

India and the United States have arrived at an understanding to resolve differing perceptions on military cooperation.

While India has been assigned the U.S. Pacific Command (Pacom), it wants to be shifted to the U.S. Central Command whose area extends westwards from India and considered by its security planners as more crucial to national interests.

On his first familiarisation visit here, Pacom Commander Admiral Timothy Keating said it would be difficult to reassign a command since the U.S. Congress had drawn the boundaries for the military commands.

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