The United States and India signed the LEMOA (Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement) on Monday to allow the use of each other’s land, air and naval bases for repair and resupply. The agreement is seen as a step by some towards building defence ties as both India and the USA seek to counter the growing maritime assertiveness of China.
The agreement, a relatively mundane one concerning day-to-day military logistics, is nonetheless a milestone in the US-India defence relationship because of the outsized political importance it had taken on in India, where it had touched on domestic sensitivities, experts said.
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