Japan has given up its post-War pacifism and is working to become a major military power. The turn is historic, and promises to transform the geopolitics of Asia and the world. A politically resolute and militarily strong Japan contributes to India’s objective of building a multipolar Asia in a multipolar world.
India needs to understand deterrence in its entirety and adopt strategy-based military modernisation, which the PLA has successfully done against the US military.
Two books – 'The Rise of the Infrastructure State' and 'Asian Geopolitics and the US-China Rivalry' – support the claim that the world today is 'bi-multipolar', moving in the direction of greater multipolarity.