The joint U.S-Indian operation is emblematic of unprecedented military cooperation between the two nuclear nations over the past few years, in fact a strategic military partnership whose major purposes are to supplant Russia as India’s decades-long main defense ally and arms supplier and to consolidate a U.S.-led military bloc in the Asia Pacific region aimed at containing China and furthering the encirclement of both that nation and Russia. But the New Delhi-Washington axis is fraught with even grander designs and potentially catastrophic dangers. With the North Atlantic Treaty Organization expanding into Eastern Europe over the last ten years and its upgrading of military contacts and deployments through various partnership agreements the world’s only military alliance spans five continents, the Middle East and the South Pacific, effectively taking over other former Cold War military blocs and thus constituting history’s first international military alliance. Full article.