{"id":129211,"date":"2021-08-27T19:20:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T13:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=129211"},"modified":"2021-08-28T17:26:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T11:56:51","slug":"explained-the-malabar-exercise-of-quad-nations-and-why-it-matters-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-the-malabar-exercise-of-quad-nations-and-why-it-matters-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: The Malabar Exercise of Quad nations, and why it matters to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/malabar-exercise-of-quad-nations-why-it-matters-to-india-7472058\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong>To understand Malabar exercise<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong> Malabar exercise, which now involves all navies of QUAD countries, is the centrepiece of the emerging security architecture in the Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<h5>Context:<\/h5>\n<p>Navies of the four-member nations of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue(Quad) \u2014 India, USA, Japan, and Australia \u2014 are participating in the <strong>25th edition of the Malabar Exercise<\/strong>. The 25th edition began off the coast of Guam in the Pacific Ocean on August 26.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #f2e9f1;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/quad-and-its-relevance-explained-pointwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quad Summit and its relevance \u2013 Explained, Pointwise<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>What is Malabar Exercise and how it has evolved<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a multilateral war-gaming naval exercise that started in <strong>1992 as a bilateral exercise<\/strong> between India and the USA.<\/li>\n<li>After successful editions in 1995 &amp; 1996, there was a<strong> break until 2002<\/strong> in the aftermath of India\u2019s nuclear tests.<\/li>\n<li>It has been conducted every year after 2002<\/li>\n<li>Japan and Australia first participated in 2007, and since 2014, India, the US and Japan have participated in the exercise every year.<\/li>\n<li>Japan joined <strong>in 2015<\/strong> as a permanent member, and Malabar became a <strong>trilateral exercise<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 2020, for the first time in over a decade, Australia joined the exercise and all QUAD navies were seen together in action.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What does Malabar exercise include?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It includes simulated war games and combat manoeuvres.<\/li>\n<li>It includes complex exercises including anti-surface, anti-air and anti-submarine warfare drills.<\/li>\n<li>These combat drills will enhance synergy and mutual understanding among the four navies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why did Australia return and what is the significance of the Malabar exercise<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Australia had first participated in 2007, however, in 2008 government in Australia changes, and it stopped participating after that.<\/li>\n<li>Now, the assertive rise of China is acting unifying cause for the region.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Australia remarked <\/strong>that Malabar exercises will help in upholding the rules-based international order and territorial integrity of all nations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Experts view<\/strong> that the Malabar exercise will strengthen QUAD, which will act as an instrument of deterrence against China.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>India&#8217;s other naval exercises with QUAD countries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indian Navy conducted a number of <strong>Passage Exercises (PASSEX) with the navies of Japan, Australia, and the US<\/strong>. These are basic exercises to increase operability between the navies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Way Forward <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malabar exercise adds the military dimension to QUAD. Though QUAD will not emerge as an alliance like NATO, but moves like Malabar exercises will create sufficient deterrence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terms to know<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/quad-quadrilateral-security-dialogue\/\">QUAD<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0Indian Express Relevance: To understand Malabar exercise Synopsis: Malabar exercise, which now involves all navies of QUAD countries, is the centrepiece of the emerging security architecture in the Indo-Pacific region. Context: Navies of the four-member nations of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue(Quad) \u2014 India, USA, Japan, and Australia \u2014 are participating in the 25th edition of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-the-malabar-exercise-of-quad-nations-and-why-it-matters-to-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: The Malabar Exercise of Quad nations, and why it matters to India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,5910,9053],"class_list":["post-129211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-malabar-exercise","tag-military-exercises","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":6,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700118798},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}