On Monday, US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter and his Indian counterpart Manohar Parrikar are likely to hold a bilateral meeting followed by a joint press conference at the Pentagon. Weeks after India was designated as a major defence partner by the US, one of the key likely developments expected from this meeting is the signing of the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA).

LEMOA is a reworded version of the Logistics Support Agreement (LSA), an agreement that allows US and its allies to avail logistics support facilities like fuel, spare parts and storage of the other party.

The experts seem divided on the repercussion of such an agreement.