{"id":7695,"date":"2026-10-28T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T05:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2026-10-28T13:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T07:58:28","slug":"exercise-garuda-shakti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/exercise-garuda-shakti\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Garuda Shakti: India and Indonesia Hold 10th Joint Special Forces Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Exercise Garuda Shakti Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 11th edition of the India-Indonesia joint Special Forces Exercise Garuda Shakti has commenced at Banyuwangi, Indonesia.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Exercise Garuda Shakti\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the joint Special Forces exercise <\/span><b>conducted between <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/india-and-indonesia-strengthening-bilateral-relations\/\" target=\"_blank\">India\u2013 Indonesia<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Participating Troop:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Indian contingent comprises troops from the <\/span><b>Parachute Regiment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Special Forces).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Aim:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The exercise aims to strengthen mutual understanding, cooperation and interoperability between the Special Forces of the two nations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Focus:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It focuses on tactics, techniques and procedures for special operations in <\/span><b>jungle environments, including obstacle crossing, combat marksmanship,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> mountaineering, air assault training and combat-hardening sessions.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also includes the exchange of expertise and information on weapons, equipment and operational practices.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The joint training will culminate with a <\/span><b>validation exercise<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> designed to simulate realistic operational <\/span><b>scenarios and assess the endurance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, coordination and combat readiness of both contingents.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It will further strengthen <\/span><b>defence cooperation and bilateral relations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> between India and Indonesia.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?PRID=2328954&amp;reg=48&amp;lang=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10th edition of Exercise Garuda Shakti commenced at the Special Forces Training School in Bakloh, Himachal Pradesh, in December 2025. The India-Indonesia joint military exercise focused on counter-terrorism tactics, combat shooting, drone and counter-drone operations, and strengthening interoperability between the Special Forces of both nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":130912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4041],"class_list":["post-7695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-exercise-garuda-shakti","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":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130981,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions\/130981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130912"}],"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}]}}