Will They or Won't They? US Leaves Issue of Sanctions on India Under CAATSA Open-Ended
Oblique references to CAATSA by senior US officials have surfaced periodically, in what many military planners in Delhi claim qualifies as a tactical ploy by Washington to 'nudge' Delhi into buying its materiel.
US Air Force F-15 fighter jets fly in formation during a flyover above Hudson River and New York Harbor, U.S. July 4, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Mike Segar/File Photo
Security12/Feb/2021
Chandigarh: The US, it seems, is craftily leveraging its threat of sanctioning India over acquiring Russian defence equipment, particularly five Almaz-Antel S-400 Triumf self-propelled surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems, possibly as a force multiplication strategy to âpersuadeâ New Delhi into buying more of its materiel, especially combat aircraft.