This is a first and a good thing for countering China:
A new milestone was reached last week in the growing U.S.-India partnership when nearly 2,000 troops from the two countries completed a military exercise in the Bay of Bengal.
About 500 Marines and sailors aboard the dock landing ship Germantown joined roughly 1,200 Indian troops for Exercise Tiger Triumph. It was the first time all of India's military services, including the army, navy and air force, participated in a training exercise with U.S. troops.
That's a nice first step ashore. Hopefully the Army is thinking about India, too, which I touched on in this Military Review article about the potential for large-scale Army operations in the Asia-Pacific (now Indo-Pacific) region.
And where did the hyphen start for INDO-PACOM? We could have avoided that sort of issue if we'd gone with my suggestion for naming our regional unified command there--PAINCOM.
