India and Japan conclude Dharma Guardian joint military exercise
India’s and Japan’s joint military exercise Dharma Guardian concludes today.
The annual exercise ran from 25 February to 9 March, in India’s northwest Rajasthan region bordering Pakistan.
It is the largest region of the country and is mostly covered by the Great Indian Desert, serving as a buffer zone between the countries.
The main objective of Dharma Guardian was to increase military cooperation and combined capabilities in semi-urban environment. Due to geography, both counties worked to establish a temporary operating base, create an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance grid, and enhance transport, checkpoints, and search operations in hostile villages.
This joint military exercise deepens military cooperation, enhances interoperability, and strengthens counter-terrorism and disaster response. In the short term, military engagement is expected to continue and highlight the shared strategic goals between Delhi and Tokyo. The heavy emphasise on the Chapter VII of the UN Charter during this exercise underscores the existing uncertainty surrounding current conflict and the lack of accountability and sanction effectiveness. Regional and bilateral partnerships are expected to increase under stressed international institution and a world pinned by contested multilateralism which have showed unable of solve conflicts and mitigate their worldwide effects.
