India’s growth story and its growing importance at various global platforms are the chief driving factors why India and the United States are coming closer like never before. But, the major question is that Is the India-U.S. post-Cold War rapprochement budding into an Indo-US alliance?

Both the countries have come closer in various fields and cooperating with each other in different sectors including the nuclear energy power generation through the much-debated nuclear deal.

The old days of distrusts between India and the United States, during the years of cold war, has been disappeared now. A new kind of range of common strategic interests such as common economic, political, social and security concerns have been emerged in the scene.

However, leaders from both the countries would not accept the term ‘alliance’ fit for the level of cooperation and they would avoid calling the conditions emerged at present as Indo-US alliance because of compulsions in domestic compulsions.

James Clad, the Department of Defense’s deputy assistant secretary for South and Southeast Asia, said that the word “alliance sends a wrong signal figuring a real or potential opponent. He assured the US wasn’t trying to entice India into a formal defense arrangement.

According to him, The US just wants to maintain a strategic equilibrium in Asia. Asia is growing great and this is necessary to avoid one-nation dominance in the region. The United States would like to see an Asia where no country is particularly dominant. There should be a complete balance of power in the region. A militarily capable India provides Asian equilibrium to a militarily capable China.

The United States is a developed giant and India can be termed as developing giant. Both the countries share linguistic and cultural connections that accelerate economic cooperation between both the countries. Both the countries are former colonies of British Empire. One is undisputed global giant and other is going global. Both want to establish peaceful, prosperous “equilibrium” conditions in Asia. There is no need to use the word ‘alliance’ at all.