importance of indian ocean

1 it is the third largest body of water in the world


2 containing vital sea lanes that help to feed asia's largest economies

3 sea lanes in the indian ocean are considered among the most strategically important in the world as more then 80% of world sea borne trade in oil transit through indian ocean choke points

4 indian ocean homes to continually evolving startegic development including the competition rise between india and china
potentail nuclear confrontation between india and pakistan

5 us intervention in iran iraq afganistan in combating islamist terrorism (as usa 5th fleet is headquatered in behrain  and use of island diego garcia as a major airbase) show impoartnce of indian ocean therefore all the world's power have deployed substantial military forces in indian ocean region


6combined task force 150 which tasked with countering piracy

rom gulf of oman to kenya is active in this region


china's aggresive soft power diplomacy transformed entire region dynamics