Canberra, July 13 -- The planning for Australia's largest military exercise, Talisman Sabre, is well underway, with international partners having the opportunity to meet with each other and Australian planning colleagues in Canberra recently.

According to the Australian Department of Defence, designed to accelerate planning and strengthen alignment across participating nations, the engagement of the Australian planning team with Defence attaches from a number of participating nations has set the stage for an expanded and more integrated iteration of the exercise.

Director-General Joint Collective Training Commodore Phillipa Hay emphasised the importance of early collaboration in shaping the exercise's success.

"Engagements like this ar...