Soldiers of the U.S. Army will deploy to a region of northern India’s Uttarakhand state — located 60 miles from India’s disputed Himalayan border with China — in October to participate in an annual joint military exercise with the Indian Armed Forces called Yudh Abhyas, the U.S. Army Pacific confirmed to Japan’s Nikkei Asia on Wednesday.
Iran’s armed forces launched a two-day, large-scale air defense drill in the country’s central desert region on Tuesday designed to strengthen the military’s ability to protect Iran’s “aerial borders and sensitive areas,” Mehr News Agency reported.
The Russian armed forces will join China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for a joint military drill in northern China in early August, China’s national defense ministry announced Thursday.
Indian Navy warships together with the United States Navy coordinated a joint maritime exercise in the Indian Ocean on Monday, Voice of America (VOA) reported on Tuesday.
Taiwan carried out a major live-fire military drill on Thursday to simulate repelling a Chinese amphibious invasion, pointedly demonstrating a strategy the Defense Ministry described as “enemy annihilation on the shore.”
Communist China’s navy released a propaganda video showing off its naval capabilities in frustration over America’s decision not to invite Beijing to the annual U.S.-led Pacific joint military drill and “naval keg party,” known as the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPCA), Task & Purpose reported this week.
The Israeli military sparked a minor panic in central Tel Aviv on Sunday when it triggered rocket alert sirens at its Kirya headquarters complex as part of an unannounced exercise.
