Exercise Ajeya Warrior is a biennial training event between the Indian Army and the army of:
- (a)Nepal
- (b)United Kingdom
- (c)Russia
- (d)Japan
Correct — B, United Kingdom. Ajeya Warrior is the army-to-army exercise in the India and United Kingdom defence relationship, held about every two years and alternating between the two countries. Its content is company-level field training in counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism under a United Nations mandate, with drills on cordon and search, urban operations and joint planning. The other three countries in the option list all have Indian army exercises of their own, and each has a different name, which is what the question is testing.
- (a)Nepal — The India and Nepal army exercise is Surya Kiran, held annually and alternating between the two countries.
- (c)Russia — The India and Russia exercise is Indra, which has been run in single-service and tri-service forms.
- (d)Japan — The India and Japan army exercise is Dharma Guardian; the naval exercise with Japan is JIMEX and the air exercise Veer Guardian.
India runs a large and growing programme of bilateral and multilateral military exercises, and each partner is associated with a distinct set of names, usually one per service. The purpose is interoperability — common procedures, communications and planning methods — as much as training, and the names recur year after year with rising edition numbers, which makes them a reliable source of examination questions.
The efficient way to prepare this topic is by country rather than by exercise, because the options in an item like this are always countries. With the United Kingdom the army exercise is Ajeya Warrior, the naval one Konkan and the air one Indradhanush. With the United States there is Yudh Abhyas for the armies, Malabar at sea with partners, Vajra Prahar for special forces and Tiger Triumph as the tri-service exercise. With Russia there is Indra. With Nepal, Surya Kiran. With Japan, Dharma Guardian. With Sri Lanka, Mitra Shakti for the armies and SLINEX at sea. With Indonesia, Garuda Shakti for special forces and Samudra Shakti at sea. Learn the country column and the exercise names attach themselves.
- Ajeya Warrior is the biennial India and United Kingdom army exercise, alternating between the two countries.
- The other India and United Kingdom exercises are Konkan for the navies and Indradhanush for the air forces.
- Surya Kiran is with Nepal, Indra with Russia and Dharma Guardian with Japan.
- Yudh Abhyas is the India and United States army exercise; Tiger Triumph was the first India and United States tri-service exercise.
- Mitra Shakti is with Sri Lanka and Garuda Shakti with Indonesia.
Prepare this table by country, because the options in these items are always countries.
- Attaching a Sanskrit-sounding exercise name to a neighbouring country by reflex; Ajeya Warrior is with the United Kingdom.
- Confusing the service — Konkan is naval and Indradhanush is air, both with the same partner.
- Mixing up Mitra Shakti, which is with Sri Lanka, with Maitree, which is with Thailand.
As a direct exercise-to-country match, so the entire preparation is a table and the entire risk is one row.
Which of the following statements about 'Exercise Mitra Shakti-2023' are correct? 1. This was a joint military exercise between India and Bangladesh. 2. It commenced in Aundh (Pune). 3. Joint response during counter-terrorism operations was a goal of this operation. 4. Indian Air Force was a part of this exercise. Select the answer using the code given below :
- (a) 1, 2 and 3
- (b) 1, 2 and 4
- (c) 1, 3 and 4
- (d) 2, 3 and 4
Answer(d) 2, 3 and 4
The same table tested by attaching an exercise to the wrong partner. Mitra Shakti is with Sri Lanka, not Bangladesh, and that single misattribution is what the statement set turns on.
The eighth edition of the Exercise Garuda Shakti, a bilateral military-to-military exercise, was conducted recently between the special forces of India and
- (a) Japan
- (b) Indonesia
- (c) Bhutan
- (d) Myanmar
Answer(b) Indonesia
Another row of the same table, set in the same year. Garuda Shakti belongs to Indonesia, and the presence of Japan among its distractors is the mirror of the Japan option here.
What was the code name given to the first ever tri-service military exercise between India and USA?
- (a) Lion Triumph
- (b) Elephant Triumph
- (c) Tiger Triumph
- (d) Bison Triumph
Answer(c) Tiger Triumph
Adds the tri-service dimension. A partner country can appear in three or four exercise names at once, one per service plus a joint one, so an exercise-to-country table works best when the service is recorded alongside.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Exercise Surya Kiran is conducted between India and
- (a)Nepal
- (b)Bhutan
- (c)Bangladesh
- (d)Myanmar
Answer(a) Nepal — an annual army exercise alternating between the two countries.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Exercise Konkan is conducted between the navies of India and
- (a)France
- (b)the United Kingdom
- (c)Australia
- (d)Oman
Answer(b) the United Kingdom — the naval counterpart to the army exercise Ajeya Warrior.