Replenishment at sea (RAS) evolutions team on board HMAS Canberra fire the lines across to HMAS Success during a RAS as part of Indo-Pacific Endeavour 2019.
By David Brewster
Australia’s definition of the “Indo-Pacific” currently includes much of the Pacific Ocean as well as the eastern Indian Ocean, but excludes the western Indian Ocean. This is no longer a sensible or useful way of defining our region. Australian policymakers need to include the island states of the western Indian Ocean in our Indo-Pacific strategy, even if only in a fuzzy way.
