Anyway, I think that India's long-term geostrategic goal should be to adopt a limited interventionist policy within our "sphere of influence", which I consider to be essentially the entire Indian Ocean from East Africa to Indonesia. We should intervene in these places when local governments are at risk of collapsing or otherwise face danger from destabilizing forces. The over-arching objective should be to preserve a functioning Indian Ocean world-system with India as the core and the littoral countries of the Ocean as peripheries or semi-peripheries. I am certainly against intervening in some god-forsaken place on the other side of the world and becoming a global policeman in the mold of the U.S.