GoA & Indian Ocean

  • An ASEAN CG?

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    ASEAN CG on the way? Asean experts gun for integrated Coast Guard Venkatesh Bayya Visakhapatnam: Increased maritime security in the form of an integrated ASEAN Coast Guard and efforts by India […]

  • Red Sea military build-up

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    The Red Sea is becoming host to three distinct but loosely linked theatres of competition. Why intensifying international interest in the Red Sea is driving military buildup By: Sabahat Khan International […]

  • India, UAE naval exercises

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    Ahead of the second visit by India’s prime minister Narendra Modi to the UAE on Saturday, efforts are being made to put into action between 12 and 14 agreements between […]

  • Cutlass Express wraps

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    A busy week for the Combined Task Force. CTF150 completes Exercise Cutlass Express 2018 in Seychelles An international team from Combined Task Force (CTF) 150 recently travelled to the Seychelles […]

  • 26th MEU deployed

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    Marines head out. 26th MEU departs for deployment at sea Approximately 2,500 Marines and Sailors with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit departed Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, to deploy aboard […]

  • Pak Navy in drug bust

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    Another large drugs seizure in the Arabian Sea. Pakistan Navy ship ASLAT seizes huge cache of drugs in North Arabian Sea By Hafeez Tunio KARACHI: Pakistan Navy Ship ASLAT seized 5,000 […]

  • Another huge CMF haul

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    Another huge seizure for CMF. HMAS Warramunga in support of CTF150 seizes another $100 million of drugs in Western Indian Ocean Combined Task Force (CTF) 150, part of Combined Maritime […]

  • Sri Lanka’s piracy push

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    Hopes for anti-piracy hub. Sri Lanka to make a request to establish the maritime operations secretariat for suppression of sea piracy off Somalia coast in the country The Sri Lankan […]

  • China’s barrack ships

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    R&R, Chinese style. China Militarizes Cruise Ship Design In 2012 the Chinese naval ships operating off Somalia were seen accompanied by what appeared to be a cruise ship. It was […]

  • Strategy in the BAM

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    Securing the world’s fourth busiest waterway. The Gate of Tears: Interests, Options and Strategy in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait By Jimmy Drennan Introduction Some were surprised by the news that four […]

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