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- Recently, the United States and Indonesian militaries had conducted annual joint combat exercises on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island.
- For the first time, participants from other partner nations have also joined amid growing maritime activity by China in the Indo-Pacific region.
- More than 5,000 soldiers from the U.S., Indonesia, Australia, Japan and Singapore participated in this 2022’s exercises.
- The exercises were designed to strengthen interoperability, capability, trust and cooperation in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific.
- The exercises lasted till 14th August 2022, encompassing army, navy, air force and marine drills.
India’s Exercises with US & Indonesia
US:
- Exercise YudhAbhyas: It is the largest running joint military training and defence cooperation endeavor between India and the US.
- Exercise Tiger Triumph (Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief exercise): It aims to develop interoperability for conducting HADR operations.
- Exercise Vajra Prahar (Special Forces’ Exercise): The joint exercise by the Special Forces of both the countries is conducted alternatively between India and the United States.
SOURCE: THE HINDU,THE ECONOMIC TIMES,MINT
