Indian and American troops will participate in 14 days ‘ Exercise Yudh Abhyas -2019 ‘ (joint military training ) which is being conducted at Joint Base Lewis Mc Chord, Washington, USA from September 5, 2019. Exercise Yudh Abhyas is one of the largest joint running military training and defence coopration endeavors between India and United States of America. This will be the 15th edition of the joint exercise hosted alternately between the two countries.
According to a press release, Exercise Yudh Abhyas provides an opportunity to the armed forces of both countries to train in an integrated manner at Battalion level with joint planning at Brigade level. Multiple scenarios will be rehearsed during the joint exercise with a view to understand each other’s organisational structure and battle procedures which would result in a higher degree of jointmanship that would further facilitate interoperability between the armed forces of both countries to meet any unforeseen contingency across the globe. The exercise is also an ideal platform to learn from each other’s expertise and experiences of planning and execution of operations.
According to Col Aman Anand, PRO of Indian Army, ” Both armies will jointly train, plan and execute a series of well developed operations for neutralization of threats of varied nature. ln the end a joint exercise will be undertaken by both countries in an operational setting under a UN mandate. Experts from both sides will hold expert academic and military discussions to share each other’s experiences on varied topics for mutual benefit.”
