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It has actively led regional multilateral joint exercises, such as the naval joint exercise that India’s navy hosted in the Andaman Sea, in the eastern Indian Ocean, earlier this year.
Last year, the US suggested quadrilateral defense exercises including US, Japanese, Indian, and Australian naval units, but the newly elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has pulled his country out of such arrangements.
But, in reality, China now exercises near total control over Hong Kong’s management.
Cooperation between India and Japan builds on, among other things, the trilateral India-Japan-US “Malabar” naval exercises.
The Kremlin’s huge weapons sales to Venezuela, and the bilateral military exercises held there, as well as the restoration of security links with Cuba, demonstrate that Russia is willing, once again, to challenge US hegemony in the Caribbean.
Now they must be re-organized to function under the new General Staff, which is already planning its own exercises with all their costs for transport, fuel, and assorted supplies.
But EDI will provide no additional troops and no added combat training – joint exercises are mostly ritualistic – while requiring yet more spending on bureaucracy.
In that respect, Moon’s first big test will come immediately after the Olympics, when the South Korea-US Combined Forces Command will decide on its plans for future military exercises.
North Korea, of course, will object to such exercises, as it always does.
Even so, a military alliance without exercises is like an orchestra without instruments.
In countries like the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and Italy, research-assessment exercises are inexorably creating a culture of quantification and accountability, in which citation data play an increasingly important role.
While Russia has warmed to China in recent years, not least by entering into a big natural gas deal and engaging in joint military exercises, it has largely done so as a gesture of defiance against the US and the European Union.
The group, it turned out, was led by an exiled patriarch, Li Hongzhi, who had conjured his cult out of traditional Chinese breathing exercises (qigong), a belief in miracle cures, nostrums about clean living, and a mish-mash of Buddhist and Taoist mysticism.
Virtually no expert foresaw the events of 1989; no expert whom I know imagined that China’s next wave of destabilizing protest might come from a mass movement of superstitious middle-aged, middle-class citizens dedicated to recycled notions of Buddhist and Taoist clean living, health through meditation, breathing exercises and mysticism spread via the Internet.
We have not yet seen any renewed attempt to re-establish the “Quadrilateral Security Dialogue,” comprising Japan, Australia, the US, and India, which conducted joint military exercises in 2007 and was seen by China as a hostile containment enterprise.
This recognition is reflected in a significant new defense deal, announced at the recent meeting, as well as plans to increase military sales and exercises, deepen cooperation in the Indian Ocean, and build on last year’s cyber-security agreement.
Sure, PowerPoint presentations have displaced chalkboards, enrollments in “massive open online courses” often exceed 100,000 (though the number of engaged students tends to be much smaller), and “flipped classrooms” replace homework with watching taped lectures, while class time is spent discussing homework exercises.
But wouldn’t it make more sense for the bulk of faculty teaching time to be devoted to helping students engage in active learning through discussion and exercises, rather than to sometimes hundredth-best lecture performances?
The only hope for offsetting this fundamental shortcoming is that the court exercises sound judgment in individual cases.
The US is now providing bunker-buster bombs and refueling planes to Israel, while the two militaries are increasing joint military exercises in case an attack becomes necessary and unavoidable.
In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte, in power since June, has sent shockwaves across Southeast Asia by denouncing the US, inching closer to China, and calling for the end to American-Philippine joint military exercises.
If any institution (including the Supreme Court) exercises unfettered, unaccountable power, the erosion of civil liberties, and the spread of day-to-day injustices, fascism will not be far behind.
When he proclaimed that the USS Carl Vinson was moving toward the Korean Peninsula, it was actually taking part in joint exercises with the Australian Navy in the Indian Ocean, 3,500 miles away.
A key component of that mission is the Pacific Pathways program, which involves “joining multinational partners to conduct a series of military exercises intended to increase Army readiness through additional training and strengthened partner-force relationships.”
Engaging with US soldiers participating in Pacific Pathways exercises in Hawaii, Malaysia, and Alaska, I saw firsthand how these efforts advance regional security.
In Hawaii, American and Singaporean soldiers participated in their 36th year of joint exercises.
We engage in exercises in Alaska that develop our capabilities in extreme climates – capabilities that will help us to ensure that the Arctic does not become a contested region.
The new Strategic Concept, adopted at the Alliance’s 2010 Lisbon summit, established collective defense as one of its three main tasks, underscoring the importance of developing contingency plans, organizing joint exercises and training, and creating “visible assurance” within member states.
Another practical step to improve NATO’s readiness to defend its eastern flank has been the organization of joint military exercises, such as “Steadfast Jazz,” held in the Baltics and Poland in 2013.
These exercises re-affirmed NATO’s seriousness about defending its eastern members.
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