Hi, As far as the wargames are concerned,it is in india's interest for diplomatic and military reasons.Our navy is one of the most professional and formidable in the world.When compared to US,UK,Russia or France,what we lack in terms of superior equipment is more than made up for by the superior knowledge in tactics and strategy.Also the training imparted to our naval officers is very exacting and of world class standards.Also the discipline of our navy is very high.They operate in some of the most difficult platforms without complain.A case in point is the Kashin class destroyers(made in russia) where the guys does not have even bunks to sleep.(The russians anyway built the ship,place a whole lot of weapons and leave the rest to the crew to figure out where they should eat,sleep etc).The submarines of our navy,well the lesser said the better(no bath,no shave,tinned food,carbon dioxide percenatges hitting as high as 3% which is alomost a hundred times more than in normal atmospehere).On the other hand the comfort levels in american ships and submarines is fairly high.Thus the navy is looked upon by the other nations as a bunch of insane professionals who do their bidding. This is exactly why the Americans wanted us to escort their warships through the malacca straits.Another reason is that they want to exercise with our Kilo class submarines which are the stealthiest in the world and difficult to detect.But even indians are smart and they never send these for exercis