Yudh Abhyas- 2019 At Joint Base Lewis Mc Chord, Washington, USA

As part of the ongoing Indo-US defence cooperation, a joint military training, Exercise Yudh Abhyas - 2019 is being conducted at Joint Base Lewis Mc Chord, Washington, USA from 05-18 September 2019.
Exercise Yudh Abhyas is one of the largest joint running military training and defence corporation endeavors between India and USA. This is the 15th edition of the joint exercise hosted alternately between the two countries.
Exercise Yudh Abhyas provides an opportunity to the armed forces of both countries to train in an integrated manner at Battalion level with joint planning at Brigade level.
Multiple scenarios are being rehearsed during the joint exercise with a view to understand each other's organisational structure and battle procedures which would result in a higher degree of jointmanship that would further facilitate interoperability between the armed forces of both countries to meet any unforeseen contingency across the globe.
Both armies are jointly training, planning and executing series of well developed operations for neutralization of threats of varied nature.
ln the end a joint exercise will be undertaken by both countries in an operational setting under a UN mandate.