Today India and Israel have a vibrant strategic partnership, based on common security concerns, intelligence cooperation, military cooperation and business ties. The bilateral ties between the 2 states have improved since 1992, but the conflicts involving Israel will bring to the fore numerous complications for India’s entangling defense dynamics, it’s not only delays in weapons deliveries.

Aligning the Relationship to the Strategic Shifts and the Foundations of the Relationship.

There were both external and internal factors that led to India’s pivot towards Israel in the 1990s. The decline of the Cold War and the break-down of the Soviet Union, India’s big gun producer, created a strategic void. Israel, on the other hand, could provide high tech military equipment, asymmetric warfare know-how and readiness to operate covertly. The cooperation grew, in the early 21st century with the security needs and complementariness of both sides.

Successive Indian governments, especially those led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the current government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have seen a blossoming relationship with Israel. But the Israeli wars reveal the weaknesses of this alliance and India has to review some of its defense plans.

The first result of the war in Israel is a disruption of military-industrial cooperation. Israel’s defense companies are integrated into the world arms market, but at the time of war, they cater more to the demands of the IDF.

This requires that resources (human, technical and material) are........

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