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India Bids to Rule the Waves: From the Bay of Bengal to the Malacca Strait

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Ramtanu Maitra
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After years of hesitancy, India has now firmly acknowledged the strategic importance of the Andaman Sea. The Indian Navy is setting up a Far Eastern Naval Command (FENC) off Port Blair on the Andaman Islands - also known as the Bay Islands - located midway between the Bay of Bengal and the Malacca Strait - to give it “blue-water” status.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 10 , October 2005 , e2
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