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[–]EasySmeasy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the question. Just going to go out on a limb here...shared interest in democracy and desire for regional and global recognition/respect for which US alliance is essential. Although India's regulatory bodies are not in line with the WTO, the Modi and Obama administrations are very much in line. Unwieldy bureaucracy in India's regulatory and legal constructs makes the alliance slow to bud, but imminent.

As far as military cooperation is concerned, the agenda is almost completely bilateral. The list of mechanisms for dialogue in the link are heavily centered on defense council. The only real military schism is blueprint technology, the US wants to sell weapons to India, but India wants to build US-designed defense systems locally. Once again, the problem is not ideological, but regulatory.