Malabar Naval Exercise

Malabar Naval Exercise

Subject – Security

Context – The Quad countries — India, the U.S., Australia and Japan — will carry out the next edition of the Malabar naval exercise from August 26 to 29 off the coast of Guam amid mounting global concerns over China’s growing military muscle-flexing in the Indo-Pacific region.

Concept –

• Malabar exercise is an annual naval exercise between the navies of India, Japan, Australia and the USA.
• It is held alternately in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean.
• It began as a bilateral naval exercise between India and the USA in 1992 and was expanded into a trilateral format with the inclusion of Japan in 2015.
• The Exercise is aimed to support free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific and remain committed to a rules based international order.