Exercise Dharma Guardian 2022

• 01 Mar 2022

Why in News?

Recently, a Joint Military Exercise, “Exercise Dharma Guardian-2022”, between India and Japan will be conducted at foreign training node, Belagavi (Belgaum, Karnataka) from 27^th February to 10^th March 2022.

What is Exercise Dharma Guardian?

• Exercise Dharma Guardian-2022 is an annual training event which is being conducted in India since 2018.
• The scope of this exercise covers platoon level joint training on operations in jungle and semi urban/urban terrain.
• The joint exercise schedule includes house interventions drills, raid on terrorist hideouts in semi urban terrain, combat first aid, unarmed combat & close quarter combat firing where both sides will jointly train, plan and execute a series of well-developed tactical drills for neutralisation of likely threats.
• Special emphasis is being laid on enhancing tactical skills to fight global terrorism and on enhancing inter-operability between the forces and to promote Army to Army relations.

What are Other Military Exercises between India and Japan?

• Malabar: India and Japan with the United States and Australia participate in the naval wargaming exercise named Malabar.
• JIMEX (naval)
• SHINYUU Maitri (Air Force)

Source: IE