India and US to conduct joint military exercise ‘YUDH ABHYAS 2017’

A joint military training exercise ‘Yudh Abhyas – 2017’ will be conducted at Joint Base Lewis McChord, Washington (USA) from 14 to 27th Sep this year.
This will be the 13th edition of the joint exercise hosted alternately between the two countries.

The exercise ‘Yudh Abhyas’ will provide an opportunity to the armed forces of both countries to train in an integrated manner at Battalion level with joint planning at Brigade level.

Both armies will jointly train, plan and execute a series of well-developed operations for neutralization of threats of varied nature.