Story by ANDREW KACIMAIWAI
A TWO-FOLD increase in military numbers will make this year’s Exercise Talisman Sabre the largest ever.
The Talisman Sabre 2023 is scheduled to run from July 22-August 4 across Queensland, Western Australia, Northern Territory and New South Wales.
Talisman Sabre is the largest bilateral military training exercise between Australia and the US.
According to the Australian Defence Department, It will allow both forces to carry out multi-domain warfare capabilities, affirm their ties and interoperability, and strengthen regional strategic partnerships.
The 14-day exercise will include large scale logistics, multi-domain firepower demonstrations, land combat, amphibious landings and air operations.
Also participating this year are Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, France, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany. The Philippines, Singapore and Thailand will attend as observers.
Talisman Sabre will take place against heightened tensions between China and Taiwan-US, the war in Ukraine and greater tension between Australia and China after the recent AUKUS nuclear submarine pact with the US and UK was signed off in San Diego.
Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said Talisman Sabre was “a practical demonstration of our enduring alliance with the United States”.
“Australia is excited to host what will be the largest ever iteration of Talisman Sabre this year, involving more of our partner nations than ever before,” he said.
“Talisman Sabre reflects a shared commitment to enduring relationships between trusted partners, and a stable Indo-Pacific through an upholding of the rules-based order.”
Talisman Sabre Exercise Director Brigadier Damian Hill said this year’s exercise would be the largest ever in terms of geographic coverage and partner nation involvement.
“Considerable planning has gone into a safe and productive exercise for all participants,” he said.
“This year’s exercise will demonstrate our ability to receive large volumes of personnel and equipment into Australia from across the Indo-Pacific and stage, integrate and move them forward into the large exercise area.”
“Talisman Sabre 2023 will be held across defence and non-defence training areas across northern Australia.”
Exercise Tasman Sabre 2021 photo gallery
All pictures courtesy of the Australian Department of Defence
Tasman Aircraft 
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