Exercise Malabar-2021

• 23 Aug 2021

• Navies of four countries – India, Japan, the USA and Australia will participate in the Exercise MALABAR-21 that will be conducted at sea from 26-29 Aug 21 at Guam (a U.S. island territory in Micronesia, in the Western Pacific).
• Exercise Malabar is a trilateral naval exercise involving the United States, Japan and India as permanent partners.
• Originally begun in 1992 as a bilateral exercise between India and the United States, the exercise was expanded in 2007 with the participation of Japan, Singapore and Australia. Japan became a permanent partner in 2015. Australia participated in the exercise again in 2020, marking the second time that the Quad will be jointly participating in a military exercise.