Rewind and Reconnoiter: Strategic Autonomy and U.S.-Indian Relations with Jeff M. Smith

In 2020, Jeff M. Smith wrote “Strategic Autonomy and U.S.-Indian Relations” where he argued that the evolution of India’s foreign policy from non-alignment to strategic autonomy alleviates previous constraints and offers the United States an opportunity to enhance U.S.-Indian relations. Four years later, we invited Jeff back to explore his previous assertion.  Read more below.  Image: U.S. Navy (Photo by Mass Communication Spc. 2nd Class Markus Castaneda) In your article “Strategic Autonomy and U.S.-Indian Relations,” written in 2020, you argued that Indian foreign policy principle non-alignment had evolved into strategic autonomy removing some of non-alignment’s constraints and that such a paradigm shift