{"id":20921,"date":"2026-02-25T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20921"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:29:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T08:59:20","slug":"exercise-dharma-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/exercise-dharma-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Dharma Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Exercise Dharma Guardian Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Exercise &#8216;DHARMA GUARDIAN&#8217; commenced at the Foreign Training Node, Chaubattia in Uttarakhand.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Exercise Dharma Guardian<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>annual joint military exercise<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> between the <\/span><b>Indian Army and Japan.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Aim:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The aim of Exercise &#8216;DHARMA GUARDIAN&#8217; is to <\/span><b>strengthen military collaboration<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>enhance combined capabilities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to undertake joint operations in a semi-urban environment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>exercise is held alternately in India and Japan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and remains a key pillar of defence cooperation between the two nations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>7th edition<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the annual Joint Military Exercise.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Key tactical activities during the exercise include<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Establishing a Temporary Operating Base<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Developing an Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) grid<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Setting up Mobile Vehicle Check Posts<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conducting Cordon and Search Operations in hostile environment<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Executing Heliborne Operations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Undertaking House Intervention Drills<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>What are Other Exercises between India and Japan?<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Malabar:<\/b> <b>India and Japan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the <\/span><b>United States and Australia <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">participate in the naval war gaming exercise named Malabar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>JIMEX <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Naval)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>SHINYUU Maitri<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Air Force).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=2232191&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise Dharma Guardian is the 7th India\u2013Japan joint Army drill held in Uttarakhand to enhance semi-urban combat skills, ISR, heliborne ops and defence cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":89840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5711,21,350],"class_list":{"0":"post-20921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-exercise-dharma-guardian","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-afffairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89896,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921\/revisions\/89896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}