Another Experience Based Lecture (EBL), conducted to promote professional development of budding naval officers, was successfully held at the Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda Auditorium of the Naval and Maritime Academy (NMA), Trincomalee on 13th May 2023. The fifth step of EBL series was conducted by the 20th Commander of the Navy and former Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne (Retd). The topic of his speech was “Location, Location, and Location: Defence Diplomacy & Indo Pacific Strategies for Sri Lanka”.