Sarah Paine

So the British and we take this from them.

We're students of the British on this.

do the massive sharing with Lend-Lease.

And Stalin isn't sharing too much with us.

And then we've got the unified commands with the British, because they're all about doing that.

The Russians won't even let us on their territory to do things.

And they're only little bits with the Arctic convoys going up to Murmansk, and it's hardly anyone who's up there.

So this is a different cultural tradition and how to deal with things.

Thank you for coming.

I need to start with a disclaimer because I work for the U.S.

government and they require you to do a disclaimer.

So the ideas that you're about to hear are my ideas.

They don't necessarily represent those of the U.S.

government, the U.S.

Navy Department, the U.S.

Department of Defense, let alone the Naval War College where I work.

Are we all good on this?

All right.

So today I'm going to tell you a story of three protagonists.

Russia, the United States, and China that all wanted to work their magic on India and Pakistan, which didn't exactly appreciate it.