On April 07, 2021 The USS John Paul Jones, a US Navy guided missile destroyer, undertook a Freedom of Navigation patrol west of India’s Lakshadweep islands. Commodore Anil Jai Singh explains the US naval fleet’s defiance of Indian Law. FONOPS assert that the oceans are ‘global commons’ and are also an expression of the importance being attributed by the ‘arc of maritime democracies’ but it is vital to maintain a rules-based international order.Read More…
