ABSTRACT
This chapter surveys Whitehall Paper's broad findings, while looking at how Indian power projection might unfold in practice. Power projection is assuming greater importance in India's military thinking and preparation. The chapter considers how Indian interests and future power projection may be connected, the role that coalitions might or might not play in this, and how these factors might shape others' responses to Indian actions. It outlines five types of interests that have been growing in importance to India. These include: the regional balance of power, transnational terrorism, economic security, diaspora status and security, and the global commons. The most important of these include the Malabar series, which began as a bilateral Indo–US exercise in 1992, and grew to include Australia, Singapore and Japan in 2007; and the Milan series, which began in 1995 and has grown to include fifteen nations. India's relationship to power projection is an ambivalent one.
