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India and France bilateral exercises
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- India and France are in discussions for a bilateral tri-service military exercise to take forward the strategic cooperation while also exploring ways to operationalise the logistics agreement.
Bilateral Exercises
- Shakti- Between Armies
- Varuna- Between Navies
- Garuda- Between Air forces
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- This will be India’s third such joint exercise.
- The first joint tri-service exercise was held with Russia in October last year and has finalised one with the U.S. to be held next year.
- India and France signed a logistics pact in March this year which gives access to their militaries to each other’s bases for logistics support.
- While the agreement gives India access to French military bases all over the world on a “reciprocal basis,” of particular interest for New Delhi are the three French bases in the Indian Ocean — Reunion Island, Djibouti and Abu Dhabi.1) These three bases would give-2) The Indian Navy and the Air Force operational turnaround to the far end of the Indian Ocean,3) Improving its monitoring and surveillance of the region,4) In the backdrop of increased Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).
Source
The Hindu