India, France to hold joint army drill

French Defense Minister Gérard Longuet announced that the French and Indian armies would be holding a joint exercise, Shakti.

Longuet made the announcement at a press conference held at the French Embassy in New Delhi on Friday. The two countries already hold air and naval exercises called Garuda and Varuna, respectively.

Indian Army sources have told StratPost that Shakti is to be a Counter Insurgency & Counter Terrorism exercise, which will be held in August.

Both sides are to begin planning the exercise, shortly.

Avatar photo

Saurabh Joshi

Founded India's first defence news and analysis website in 2008. Trained in journalism. Studied law. Pioneered online video to tell stories of defence technologies. Video journalist. Analyst. Reporter. Follow him on Post.News: https://post.news/@/saurabhjoshi and Twitter

So what do you think?

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.