India, Nov. 13 -- India and its partners are reshaping how maritime drug trafficking is policed across the Indian Ocean. The ocean is a vast highway for narcotics heroin, hashish, and now large volumes of methamphetamine moving from production hubs toward markets in South Asia, the Gulf, East Africa, and beyond. Because distances are long and smugglers are quick to change tactics, surveillance and fast information-sharing have become the decisive edge. Over the last decade, India has built a layered maritime picture and connected it to regional partners, making interdictions more frequent and better targeted. Yet every success forces traffickers to adapt, pushing the game further offshore and turning it into a constant contest of move and...