On a five-day visit to India, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert will discuss a range of issues with his counterparts to strengthen joint training and mutual cooperation between the two navies and meet the top brass of the Defence Ministry here.
“Admiral Greenert will be visiting some of the important Naval offices in the country and will interact with the top officials of the Indian Navy. Today he will call on Defence Minister A.K. Antony and Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma,” Navy officials said here. He will also meet the three Service chiefs.
The visit by the top United States officer is taking place a week after the navies of India and the U.S. concluded their 10-day long Malabar-series exercise in the Bay of Bengal.
After interacting with the top brass here, Admiral Greenert will visit the Western Naval Command at Mumbai and meet its Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Vice Admiral D.K. Joshi and Fleet Commander Rear Admiral Girish Luthra.
“In Mumbai, he will also go to the Mazagon Dockyard Limited (MDL) and from there he will proceed to Goa where he will visit INS Hansa Naval base and will meet Flag Officer Naval Aviation (FONA) Rear Admiral Sudhir Pillai,” they said.
From Goa, Admiral Greenert will go to Karvar, which is a major hub of the navy’s training activities and will meet the Flag Officer Karvar Area Rear Admiral Atul Jain.
The visit will culminate at Cochin where the Admiral will interact with Southern Naval Commander Vice Admiral K.N. Sushil.
“During the visit, Admiral Greenert will discuss a range of issues such as ways to strengthen joint training and mutual cooperation between the navies of U.S. and India,” the officials said.
Keywords: Jonathan Greenert, Nirmal Verma, India-U.S. relations, defence ties
Neighbouring countries are not much friendly with the US. It is difficult to imagine that the US will fight with India to weaken the country so long China is not favoured by them. Hence exposing some of our naval establishments may not invite risk. The US interest is earning some money by selling arms, ammunition to India. The issue to be examined now is how much we should spend for the defense when our priorities are eradication of poverty, development of infrastructure and attainment of better economic growth. China has observed recently that some vested interested in India promote defense spending in the name of China as it helps them to pocket a part of the government money. Pakistan is economically weak but we have to worry them as it is a nuclear nation. If that government becomes weak and the nuclear weapons reach wrong hands it is the most dangerous situation. We can't go on spending money for defense which is most unproductive. Other countries are in a way worried that India is spending too much in the name of defense.
He got a long programme of 5 days and he is visiting so many of officers not just the navy chief at Delhi Why is he so much interested in us ?
It appears that the visiting US Admiral Greenert will come to have a full insight and assessment on our Naval capabilities !
Are we not at risk of this too much exposure ?
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