Exercise Sea Breeze 2021

Subject : International Relations

Context :Recently, the Exercise Sea Breeze 2021 has kicked off at Black Sea.

Concept :

About Exercise Sea Breeze 2021

It is an annual exercise started in 1997.
The 2021 edition of Exercise Sea Breeze is being led by the United States and Ukraine.
The exercise involves sea, land, and air components.
It has the largest number of participating nations in the exercise’s history with 32 countries from six continents.
The participants are Albania, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, France, Georgia, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Morocco, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Senegal, Spain, South Korea, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Significance of Exercise Sea Breeze

It provides the opportunity for personnel of participating nations to engage in realistic maritime training to build experience and teamwork and strengthen their interoperability.
It will focus on multiple warfare areas including amphibious warfare, land maneuver warfare, diving operations, maritime interdiction operations, air defense etc.
It brings most Black Sea nations and NATO Allies and partners together to train and operate with NATO members in the pursuit of building increased capability.