TAWAU: Malaysia and the United Kingdom marked a new phase in defence cooperation this week as both armies completed their first joint field exercise since 2018 under a strategic partnership agreed by the two prime ministers in London early this year.
British Deputy High Commissioner David Wallace said the collaboration reflects a modern and practical friendship rooted in shared history and now shaped to meet future security needs.
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He told
Daily Express after the closing of Exercise Tiger Gold in the Sungai Tajong Forest Reserve on Thursday that the training offered both sides a chance to exchange ground-level counterinsurgency skills and learn from each other’s environments.
Wallace added that the exercise underscored a shared commitment to maintaining stability in the Pacific region, strengthened further by UK participation in the Five Power Defence Arrangements and naval deployments such as HMS Prince of Wales.
The bilateral exercise involved 43 officers and 345 personnel from Malaysia’s 25th Royal Malay Regiment and 41 members of the UK’s 2nd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles.
