Re: Should India join the West in any future coalition to attack Iran?
Americans need to revive the old British-South Asian military cooperation that served the West so well during WWI and WWII. Thanks to the a Sikh PM, Bharat has already committed to the providing military forces for "multi-national operations". For guppies who may not remember, one of the lesser known features of the "US-India" defense framework as of June 2005 was:
“Collaborate in multi national operations".
With Pakistan, USA has already agreed to similar relationship via "Major Non-Nato Ally.
So we are almost back to the defense arrangement of 20th century. The only difference is that back then it was Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck as a commander of South Asian armies. Now they will be controlled by some American General.