Joint military exercise
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 09 2015 :
The Indo-China combined military training exercise hand-in-hand 2015 will be conducted from October 12 to 23 at Kunming Military Academy, Yunnan, China.
The exercise would bring together troops of an Infantry sub-unit and a formation headquarters of Indian army and similar participation from the Chinese army for the joint training, said a press release issued by PIB (DW) .
This would be the fifth exercise in the hand-in-hand series, which started in 2007, the statement said and added that this exercise would strengthen and broaden inter-operability and co-operation between the Armies of the two countries as well as complement a number of other exchanges between the two forces.
Over the years, the two countries decided to progressively increase the scope and content of the combined training, added the press release.
The 12-day exercise would lay emphasis on joint handling of insurgency at sub-unit level and related issues while the aspect of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief would be discussed at formation headquarters level.
Commanders and staff officers of both sides will work in close coordination to receive and collate intelligence and to issue suitable operational orders to the combined field training components, which in turn would execute these orders on ground, added the press release.