Non Alignment movement was a Nehruvian pipe dream which WILL have to come to an end if there's any hope for India.
I disagree with the dhoti-shivering that Warren is engaging in here but it's true.
Alliances are temporary and shrewd anyways.
Here's Russia and China who were mortal enemies a few years back and US and Vietnam who were killing and napalming each other and US and Japan pearl harboring and nuking each other and then there's us.
What good has been this "Non Alignment" to us? The only reason we were able to free Bangladesh without US intervention was thanks to Russian deterrence. (Thanks to *gasp* alliance)
We kept facing off against a Pakistan backed by the entire world (71 saw Pakistan backed by all Arab nations, China, NATO etc).
If history's taught us anything, it's that the sins of the father gets washed off in half a century and no one cares what happened 50 years ago.
Hell, Vietnam today has the MOST positive view of America out of ALL the countries on Earth (even America itself).
Stop the dhoti shivering, keep developing and preparing for the worst but SHAMELESSLY align with whoever serves our interests best.
Non alignment is a trash theory that serves no purpose borne out of a man who believed India didn't need an Army at all.
Biography of a major general says Kashmir war saved Army from being abolished.
m.hindustantimes.com
Dump it.