{"id":315627,"date":"2019-10-13T04:13:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T04:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315627"},"modified":"2019-10-13T04:13:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T04:13:39","slug":"india-japan-to-hold-joint-military-exercise-dharma-guardian-from-october-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-japan-to-hold-joint-military-exercise-dharma-guardian-from-october-19\/","title":{"rendered":"India-Japan to hold joint military exercise \u2018Dharma Guardian\u2019 from October 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-315628 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/india-jaoan-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/india-jaoan-1.jpg 444w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/india-jaoan-1-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/>Dharma Guardian, the joint military exercise between India and Japan, will be conducted at the Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School Vairengte in Mizoram from October 19 to November 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian Army and Japanese Ground Self Defence Forces (JGSDF) contingents comprising 25 soldiers each will participate in the exercise with an aim to share experience gained during various counter-terrorism operations, the release said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Exercise \u2018Dharma Guardian\u2019 is an annual training event which is being conducted in India since 2018, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Notably, in the series of military training exercises undertaken by India with many countries, exercise Dharma Guardian with Japan is crucial and significant in terms of security challenges faced by both the nations in the backdrop of global terrorism, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The scope of this exercise covers platoon level joint training on counter terrorism operations in jungle and urban scenario.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The joint military exercise will enhance the level of defence co-operation between Indian Army and Japanese Ground Self Defence Forces (JGSDF) which in turn will further foster the bilateral relations between the two nations, it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dharma Guardian, the joint military exercise between India and Japan, will be conducted at the Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School Vairengte in Mizoram from October 19 to November 2. Indian Army and Japanese Ground Self Defence Forces (JGSDF) contingents comprising 25 soldiers each will participate in the exercise with an aim to share experience gained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[574,2507],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315629,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315627\/revisions\/315629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}