Quote Originally Posted by Dayuhan View Post
I was trying to stay with the point. How the Indian mindset changed seems distinctly peripheral to the question of what Mr. Panetta was trying to achieve by offering unspecified military-military relations to Myanmar.

Anything I could say about the changing of the Indian mindset would be speculative at best, but I would speculate that perhaps Indians noticed that the Soviet Union no longer exists, a phenomenon that might reasonably evoke some doubt over the merit of Soviet methods and doctrine. In a contest where one party loses and the other wins, observers might well be tempted to follow the example of the winners... but that, as I said, is speculation.
The manner how it was changed is hardly peripheral.

It has become a well recognised template.

Understand Psyops.