ISAS Briefs

The annual Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral Exercise in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea in November 2018 was the largest ever the two countries conducted. It celebrated the growing military partnership between India and the city state at a moment when the renewed great power rivalry has cast a dark shadow over the regional security environment of the Indo-Pacific. The planned expansion of the bilateral exercise to include Thailand promises to strengthen regional security cooperation in the eastern Indian Ocean.