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Army drills Azm-e-Nau-3 begin
KHAIRPUR TAMEWALI: Pakistan Army started today the largest ever field exercise on the eastern border for preparedness to face new challenges and give the soldiers the real feel of a warfare mission.
At least 20,000 to 50,000 soldiers belonging to all arms and services, besides Pakistan Air Force (PAF), are taking part in the military-exercise, which will continue till May 13.
The exercise is a culmination of long process of war-games, discussions and logistic evolution of the Concept of Warfare that is fully responsive to a wide menu of emerging threats.
The exercise is a concept validation stage of the operational thought manifested in the form of tactical, operational and organizational aspects which would be validated and refined through the lessons learnt over the past.
The process commenced with Army War Games named Exercise AZM-E-NAU-2, conducted in February 2010.
Pakistan Army follows biennial training system, wherein, training objectives set forth are to be achieved over a span of two years.
The training remains mission-oriented based on the obtaining security environment. The training is methodical and progressive, culminating into Map Exercise, War games, field exercises at various levels of command.
The comprehensive training package in the form of “Year of Training” in 2009-2010 has been planned in light of the vision of Chief of Army Staff and now Pakistan Army is all set to go in the field to validate those concepts which were formulated during the “Year of Training”.
A special feature of this exercise would be harvesting the technological achievements, advancement in intelligence gathering, surveillance, reconnaissance and communication means that have revolutionized warfare.
These shall be optimally leveraged in the forthcoming exercise. These capabilities are expected to act as force multipliers by reducing the fog of war for own troops, obviating enemy surprise and reducing own reaction time. All available surveillance and reconnaissance assets would be practised and utilized in the exercise to validate their efficacy.
PAF’s ongoing exercise namely “High Mark 2010” would be fully integrated with Army Field Exercise.
The Corps Commanders meeting held recently also deliberated upon the aforesaid Army Exercise and reviewed the arrangements, hoping that these exercises would help train the soldiers to meet the emerging threats in the region.
Courtesy www.Geo.tv