Top global powers, including, Russia, France, the US and some of India’s friendly neighbours such as Bangladesh, will engage in war games with the Indian army to learn from its experience of over five decades of counterterrorism and urban warfare operations.
The army will hold around 15 exercises this year with friendly foreign countries, PTI quoted army officials as
saying on Monday.
The countries in the immediate neighbourhood with which the Indian army will conduct these joint
training exercises include Bangladesh and Singapore.
The war games will kick off with ‘Bold Kurukshetra’ with the Singapore aArmy at Babina near Jhansi in March.
The two sides will field their mechanised forces in the training engagement.
The schedule and nature of exercises with other countries are yet to be decided, but anti-terrorism drills and urban warfare is going to be an important part of all of these war games, they said. The army troopers will also engage the American mechanised forces in the deserts of Rajasthan in the exercise ‘Yudh Abhyas’ which will see the US fielding its tanks there.
The US had participated in exercise ‘Yudh Abhyas-2009’ with the Indian Army, when it had taken its Stryker infantry armoured vehicles outside of its operational area to a foreign land.
Indian Army has participated in the exercise with its mechanized infantry battalions. Similar exercises are planned with the armies of France and Russia.
