An MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 51 lifts off from the flight deck aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) while operating in the Bay of Bengal during Exercise Malabar 2024 on Oct. 16, 2024
The Quad countries – Australia, Japan, India, and the United States – are back at another edition of the Malabar naval exercises in Guam in the Western Pacific from November 10-18, 2025. While the Quad leaders are unlikely to meet this year, Malabar 2025 involving the four countries is being held despite the political turbulence in some of the bilateral relations among the Quad members. The Quad may occasionally stumble, but the structural conditions in the Indo-Pacific and beyond appear to keep it going.
This is the fifth edition of the Malabar exercise in a row to include Australia. China’s belligerent behavior in the Indo-Pacific and the underlying hostility between China and the Quad countries will ensure that the Quad will likely continue to
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