How The UK-Mauritius Deal On Chagos Could Reshape US Military Strategy In The Indian Ocean – Analysis

By Raghvendra Kumar

**Introduction: The Context**

(FPRI) -- Diego Garcia, an atoll and one of the largest of the 52 islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, is geographically part of the Chagos Archipelago — a British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), which is one of the 14 overseas territories of the United Kingdom....