Partition
Partition
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2020
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通讯作者：
F. Frankel
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作者：
F. Frankel
印度分裂为印度和巴基斯坦这两个独立的国家，造成了战略上的反常。印度失去了自己的地理位置优势，它西隔阿拉伯海，靠近通往波斯湾的海上通道，东跨孟加拉湾，毗邻东南亚。巴基斯坦被1000英里的印度领土分割，如果没有一个强大的盟友--最明显的是美国，巴基斯坦被认为是站不住脚的。随着冷战的爆发，印度作为一个大国的潜力不如巴基斯坦靠近中东油田的战略位置重要。尼赫鲁认为，印度加入英联邦的决定保护了印度不会向美国倾斜太多。
The partition of India into the two independent states of India and Pakistan created strategic anomalies. India lost the advantage of its own geographic position, which had placed it across the Arabian Sea close to the sea lanes leading to the Persian Gulf in the west and astride the Bay of Bengal adjacent to Southeast Asia on the east. Pakistan, divided by one thousand miles of Indian territory, was considered virtually indefensible without a powerful ally—most obviously, the United States. As the Cold War took hold, India’s potential as a great power counted for less than Pakistan’s strategic location close to the oil fields of the Middle East. Nehru believed India’s decision to join the British Commonwealth protected India from sloping too much toward the United States.