“Vajra Prahar” Military Exercise between India and US:-
In line with the increasing military cooperation between India and the US, yet another edition of the joint military exercise ‘Vajra Prahar’ will be held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) in Seattle, in which a 45-member Special Forces team from Indian Army’s Southern Command will train alongside US soldiers in the third week of January.
‘Vajra Prahar’ is an Indo-US Special Forces joint training exercise conducted alternately in India and the US. Though the exercise began in 2010, there was a gap of three years between 2012 and 2015. The last edition was held in Jodhpur in March 2017. This edition’s Indian Army team is from the Pune-headquartered Southern Command. The fact that a team from the Special Forces is participating takes the effort to a different level, as these forces have very special skill sets and training methods. This sends a very strong message about Indo-US relations to other countries.
Main Key Aim of this Exercise:-
- The main target of the exercise is to promote military relations between India and US by enhancing interoperability and mutual exchange of tactics between the Special Forces and the joint training further aims to enable
- Sharing of best practices between the two armies.
- Development of joint strategies by sharing the expertise of conducting operations in a counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism environment.
- Capitalizing on the rich repository of experiences of each of the armies.
- The exercise will mainly focus on special operations in urban areas.
Conclusion:-
By this exercise relation between both countries were improve and Army of these countries sharing their experience operation in counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency. We conclude that this exercise is better for our country future.
