DIEGO GARCIA - The hot, humid air gusts over the pier and through the red, rusty cranes sitting atop a blue cargo ship, which casts long shadows on the workers down below. Crusty leather gloves ...
On the remote tropical island of Diego Garcia, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, lies a secretive, strategically vital US military base The base has served as a launchpad for US military ...
But for elderly Indians, it recalls Diego Garcia, a geopolitical bugbear of the Cold War era, when India wanted the US to withdraw its forces from an air-base on a small island by that name in the ...