Malabar exercise
- October 10, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Malabar exercise
Subject – Defence and Security
Context – Malabar exercise phase-II to be held next week
Concept –
- This is the first military engagement among the Quad partner countries since Australia, the U.S. and the U.K. unveiled the AUKUS initiative to deepen cooperation on a range of “emerging security and defence capabilities” which includes equipping Australian with at least eight nuclear powered submarines (SSN).
- The exercise will be held over three days, beginning October 12, in the Bay of Bengal.
- Phase-I of Malabar, also its 25th edition, was hosted by the U.S. and held off Guam from August 26-29.
- The Malabar exercise commenced in 1992 as an India-U.S. exercise. In 2015, Japan joined as a permanent member, and Australia was included in the 2020 edition.