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I really doubt that US has suddenly woken up to realize its mistakes ....reasons to put such state of the art military platforms on platter can be only to lure India ? First question we should ask why ? and next question should be Why now ?
I think any of the US move needs to be analyzed from greater Geo-political perspective .
Ever since Condoleeza Rice proposed and single handedly pursued this India policy ....US administration had shown remarkable and unbelievable turn around ....suddenly Perennial India -haters in Washington DC have become India lovers ....
The change in US's India policy can be seen at different levels of administration .....sudden pre eminence of Immigrant Indian community has to some extent fuelled these changes ....
But most decisive factor for this major turnaround in US foreign policy is the rise of China .
CIA has singularly failed in predicting or realizing two of the greatest developments in recent Global politics : first was fall of USSR and second as spectacular rise of China .
US had been caught unaware by rather fast rise of China ....Been engaged in wars in middle east in 1990's and then in Iraq -Afghanistan US simply missed to truly gauge the significance of the accelerating rise of China ....by the time real threat of Chinese decrowning US dawned upon its government ....it was too late . Only thing US could realize was to scarble its diplomacy to forge hasty alliance to contain China.
Initial attempts to build Indo-Japanese-Australian alliance failed ....India proved to be too hard nut to crack ....The deeply entrenched mutual distrust as well as contempt was one reason but India's remarkably independent foreign policy turned major impediment ...
Indian nuclear tests were the last straw ...it announced inevitable arrival of India at nuclear high table ....This was followed by another defining incident and it is that of resilience of Indian economy in face of US sanctions !
The quickness with which US rolled back US sanctions and re-engaged with India demonstrates the impact of these two incidents on US thinking ....
So rise of China followed by rise of India , imminent threat posed by China's rapid ascent to US global supremacy and rise of Indian community in US all these factors shaped US's India policy .
US has gone back over its decades old 'India' syndrome .....and is able to see India differently ....yet US does not see India anything better than a counterweight to China .
Those of us who believe US has woken up to realize Indian values and etc etc ....are too naïve to understand complexities on International politics which basically involves pitting one against another and putting one above another !
If we are to see through America's great Asian gamble ....it is truly and rightly threatened by China ....and it desperately needs countries like India to check mate China's imminent rise....
More China remains entangled in Asia better it is for US ....
This is the whole crux of so called Asia pivot which is aimed at China ....
I am inclined to see the ongoing US gestures towards India as part and parcel to this larger US strategy in Asia .
India has but no choice to play this game ...and to avoid getting check mated even as She plays this game between not so Black and white sides !!!
This is why I have said that Rise of China is one of the best things happened to India.
I agree with most of your points; obviously Asia pivot is aimed at China and Rise of China is one of the main reasons why US seeks greater co-operation with India.