Lalit Kapur - Volume V, Issue 3

DPG is deeply committed to the growth of India’s national power and purpose, the security and prosperity of the people of India and India’s contributions to the global public good. [...] The request, in the words of the Secretary of Défense, “advances a strategy focused on China and seeking to prevent the PRC’s dominance of key regions while protecting the US homeland and reinforcing a stable and open international system”28. [...] In the words of the Secretary of Defense, the “budget request reflects targeted reductions to programs that will deliver key capabilities in later years to support the joint force’s ability to fight and win in the near term”32. [...] The area of operations is the Gulf of Aden and adjoining areas, the Arabian Sea and off the East Coast of Somalia. [...] Claiming that the Philippines has teamed up with countries from outside the region to stir trouble in the South China Sea thus violating the spirit of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea and jeopardizing regional peace and stability, China’s military spokesperson said “China will respond resolutely to any action in the South China Sea that infringes on its legitimate r.