🔆Exercise Shakti ✅Exercise Shakti is a biennial Indo-French joint military exercise, launched to enhance bilateral military cooperation and interoperability. ✅It focuses on sub-conventional warfare training and UN peacekeeping operations, especially under Chapter VII of the UN Charter. ✅Host and Participating Nations: Hosted by France in 2025 at Camp Larzac, La Cavalerie. 📍Participants include: ✅Indian Army contingent led by the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles. ✅French Army’s 13th Foreign Legion Half-Brigade (13th DBLE). 📍Key Features: ✅Joint training in semi-urban terrain, mimicking modern asymmetric conflict scenarios. ✅Shared learning of Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) for sub-conventional operations. ✅Includes physically intensive activities to build endurance and team spirit. ✅Familiarisation with modern military equipment and battlefield technologies. ✅Promotes interoperability in UN peacekeeping and counter-insurgency 📍Significance of the Exercise: ✅Strengthens military diplomacy and deepens India-France defence ties. ✅Enhances strategic cooperation in Indo-Pacific and global security architecture. ✅Builds trust, communication, and coordination between the two professional forces.