Indian Ocean in Global Strategies Some Perspectives
Air Commodore Jasjit Singh, AVSM, VrC, VM, IAF (Retd.) was Director of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. read more
Volume:39
Issue:5
From the Archives
“Whoever controls the Indian Ocean dominates Asia. This ocean is the key to the seven seas. In the twenty-first century the destiny of the world will be decided on its waters”. – Alfred Mahan
The prospects for conflict and/or cooperation in the Indian Ocean are affected by multi-dimensional factors. These prospects, however, have an immediate and direct influence and relationship with the security environment of the Indian Ocean and its littoral states; and most of the factors, in fact, arise out the strategic environment itself.
