Recent development: Islamic Revolutionary Gaurd corps( IRGC), which is a elite group of Iranian army, plans to set up a permanent base in Indian Ocean region. Indian ocean is third largest ocean in the world and due to its strategic and economic importance various countries try to control it. There are various exit and entry points in Indian ocean like strait of Mallaca, strait of Hormuz and Bab al Mandeb,so by choking these points anyone can control trade through Indian Ocean. So due to these reasons various countries had started the militrasition of Indian Ocean like USA and France since mid of twentieth century. Major military bases in Indian Ocean: Diego Garcia: this is a military base of USA since 1970. USA had taken this on lease from UK. Reunion island : this is overseas territory of France so france use it as a military base. Djibouti: since 2017 djibouti is acting as military base for chinese PLA. By the way Djibouti is a military base for many other...
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