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India Prepares Desert War Game

What could be more fascinating to watch than a massive desert war game held at a nuclear weapons site? Not much, if you ask me. Counter-insurgency may be getting more attention lately, but some countries are still focusing on conventional warfare against a peer competitor. India, for example, is getting ready to conduct a large-scale […]

Indiat72ud9What could be more fascinating to watch than a massive desert war game held at a nuclear weapons site? Not much, if you ask me. Counter-insurgency may be getting more attention lately, but some countries are still focusing on conventional warfare against a peer competitor. India, for example, is getting ready to conduct a large-scale military exercise dubbed Brazen Chariots. The desert warfare simulation is scheduled for next month, reports Agence France-Presse:

The exercise involving land forces, armor and the air force will begin March 19 at Pokhran in the western desert state of Rajasthan, where India conducted a series of nuclear weapons tests in 1998 that drew international sanctions, they said.*

"A host of foreign dignitaries and defense attaches from friendly countries will witness the exercise that is aimed at putting the mechanized formations through their paces in a simulated, deep offensive scenario in a desert terrain," an air force spokesman said

India is expected to showcase the extent of its rapid military modernization, including some Israeli-built drones.

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