"We very much want to have a normal military-to-military relationship," he said, "but we need something serious on the accountability front to indicate that the Indonesian military really is on the road to reform."

He said the Bush administration was likely to develop a "robust military-to-military" relationship with both Pakistan and India while trying to freeze nuclear development in both countries.

The two men insisted today that they had done so, and aides pointed to an accord on military-to-military relationships.

"I think it is unfortunate that the U.S. does not today have military-to-military relationships with Indonesia," Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said last week.

The U.S. Armed Forces maintain a limited military-to-military relationship with the Sri Lanka defense establishment.

Annually, the program continues efforts to expand beyond the military-to-military relationships.

"We have had and do currently have and, in my view, will have prospectively a good military-to-military relationship with Saudi Arabia," he said.

A lasting military-to-military relationship with Afghanistan would probably involve airspace guarantees for American military flights, as well as promises of access to smaller, forward operating bases here.

The U.S. and Malaysia share a strong military-to-military relationship with numerous exchanges, training, joint exercises, and visits.

U.S. Army Major General Tony Cucolo has mentioned Operation Bright Star as an example of a possible joint training exercise component of a future U.S.-Iraq military-to-military relationship.