Tag: maritime forces

Santa Rita (Guam) : Naval ships, aircraft and personnel from India, Japan and the US have begun exercise Malabar 2018 during which they will practice surface and anti-submarine warfare operations and combined carrier strike group operations off the coast of Guam island in the western Pacific. The June 7-16 wargame -- first after the US renamed its Hawaii-based Pacific command as the Indo-Pacific Command -- is being held amid incrased Chinese activities of building artificial islands in the South China Sea and sending submarines into the Indian Ocean. "The Malabar 2018...