Diego Garcia, a remote Indian Ocean island nearly 2,000 miles from the East African coast, boasts clear-blue waters, pristine beaches — and a US-UK military base at the heart of the great-power ...

For India’s foreign and security policy, which of the two areas is more important: The Indian Ocean stretching from the East African shores to the Indian subcontinent – or the vast region ...

when India wanted the US to withdraw its forces from an air-base on a small island by that name in the Indian Ocean. About 2,000km south-west of Kanyakumari, it was too close for comfort.