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U.S., India outline deeper military integration in new defense framework
The framework was signed in Kuala Lumpur recently by U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
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Lalit K Jha (5WH) - Wed, 19, Nov 2025
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Representative illustraion / Lalit K Jha/ New India Abroad
The United States and India have outlined an expansive plan to more tightly integrate their militaries across nearly every major warfighting domain — land, sea, air, space and cyberspace — according to a detailed U.S. government fact sheet. The document describes a decade-long defence framework that seeks to widen joint operations, deepen intelligence and space-tracking cooperation, and accelerate co-production of advanced weapons systems as both nations confront shifting security challenges in the Indo-Pacific.
The framework, signed in Kuala Lumpur recently by U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, is described in the fact sheet as “the defining document in the U.S.-India defence relationship,” renewed every ten years and now in its most expansive form. The document states that the updated version is “the most ambitious and wide-ranging” yet and is intended to strengthen interoperability to “deter conflict.”
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