{"id":7695,"date":"2025-12-05T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2025-12-05T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:29:29","slug":"exercise-garuda-shakti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/exercise-garuda-shakti\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Garuda Shakti"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Exercise Garuda Shakti Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the 10th edition of the Exercise GARUDA SHAKTI has commenced at the Special Forces Training School, Bakloh, Himachal Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Exercise Garuda Shakti<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the joint special forces\u00a0 exercise conducted between <\/span><b>India\u2013 Indonesia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian contingent is represented by <\/span><b>troops from THE PARACHUTE REGIMENT<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Special Forces).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exercise aims to <\/span><b>strengthen mutual understanding<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, cooperation <\/span><b>and interoperability<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> between the Special Forces of the two nations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Focus:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Its scope includes <\/span><b>troop-level tactics,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> techniques and procedures in a <\/span><b>counter-terrorism environment,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> covering unarmed combat techniques, combat shooting, sniping, heliborne operations and planning for drone, counter-UAS and <\/span><b>loiter-munition strikes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in semi-mountainous terrain.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Objectives<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It features the exchange of expertise and <\/span><b>information on weapons,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> equipment and operational practices.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Validate joint training<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through a simulated real-world operational scenario.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Test the endurance, coordination and combat readiness of both contingents.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It helps in <\/span><b>advancing defence cooperation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and further strengthening bilateral relations between the two friendly nations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2198755&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise Garuda Shakti is the joint special forces  exercise conducted between India\u2013 Indonesia. Read more about Exercise Garuda Shakti, Focus, Objectives, Significance, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":76521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4041,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-7695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-exercise-garuda-shakti","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695","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=7695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}