Then came oil, and a seafaring way of life that had endured for millennia ... the region's most strategic waterway, the Persian Gulf, as "a sea in decline," bedeviled by a storm of malign influences.

New Delhi: The Indian Navy carried out at least 221 deployments across the Indo-Pacific in 2023-2024 till November 2024, displaying more than 60 warships and its aircraft—Dorniers and P8Is.