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Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Upendra Dwivedi concluded his authoritative sojourn to Australia connected February 19 reinforcing the increasing strategical concern betwixt India and the state successful the Indo-Pacific region.
According to the Indian Army, the General held extended talks during the four-day sojourn from February 16 to 19 with elder enactment of the Australian defence forces to reappraisal bilateral engagements and grow army-to-army cooperation.
In Sydney, the COAS interacted with the enactment of Forces Command (FORCOMD), Special Operations Command (SOCOMD) and the 2nd Division of the Australian Army. The engagements facilitated exchanges connected unit readiness, operational concepts and grooming methodologies.
Special accent was placed connected the bilateral Army Exercise ‘AUSTRAHIND’ with some sides expressing committedness to enriching its forthcoming variation scheduled to beryllium held successful India aboriginal this year.
Guard of honour
In Canberra, General Dwivedi was accorded a ceremonial defender of honour earlier holding substantive discussions with Lieutenant General Simon Stuart, Chief of Australian Army. A broad roundtable astatine the Australian defence forces office covered issues related to unit modernisation, emerging technologies and aboriginal operational environments.
The Army main besides addressed officers astatine the Australian Command and Staff College and interacted with the enactment of the Australian Defence College, highlighting the value of adaptive leadership, jointness and multinational practice successful navigating modern information challenges.
As portion of his high-level engagements, General Dwivedi called connected the Chief of Defence Forces and the Secretary of the Department of Defence. At Headquarters Joint Operations Command (HQJOC), helium reviewed Australia’s integrated and multi-domain operational model with the Commander Joint Operations, gaining insights into associated readying and execution mechanisms.
The sojourn besides included a wreath-laying ceremonial astatine the Australian War Memorial, wherever the COAS paid homage to fallen soldiers and acknowledged the shared bequest of sacrifice.
General Dwivedi’s sojourn has injected renewed momentum into India-Australia defence ties, strengthened nonrecreational bonds astatine the highest levels of subject enactment and underscored the shared resoluteness of some nations to lend to peace, stableness and information successful the Indo-Pacific region.
