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Malabar Exercise
Why is it in new?
- Malabar exercise is going to start from next week.
Details:
- The exercise consisting of India, Japan and the U.S., to be held next month.
- Australia had first requested to join more than three years ago.
- This year, the exercise had been planned on a ‘non-contact - at sea’ format.
- The decision to include Australia will bring all Quad countries together as part of the annual war games.
More about Malabar Exercise:
- Malabar began as a bilateral naval exercise between India and the U.S. in 1992, and was expanded into a trilateral format with the inclusion of Japan in 2015.
- Australia had made repeated requests for admission into this exercise.