Azm-e-Nau-3, 10 April to 13 May.

[graphican]

Hay this is a clear indication that Pakistan feels secure from its western borders and is comfortable in moving the defense resources towards the eastern border to confront next threat. Lovely news!

Bingo,
These terrorists are not even in 10% of their strength at which they were a year before. They are doing these things to give some "message" but this is not a strategy changing incident. Pakistan and Pakistan Army is fully aware of our threats and we are making best decision in our interests.

 

[FreekiN]

games... when few hours ago , series of bombs blasted??/

im laughing so hard tears are coming out of my eyes.

 

[Kompromat]

Jiyo mere jawan !!

 

[Bingo!]

im laughing so hard tears are coming out of my eyes.

ill send some tissues.. to wipe out the tears.!!!

 

[SSGPA1]

Here is some more info:


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Pakistan to launch war games on eastern border
(AFP) – 3 hours ago

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Pakistan's military will on Saturday launch war games allowing thousands of troops to road test new tactics near its eastern border with India, a military official said.

"The exercise is aimed at validating and refining newly evolved doctrines," the head of the army's military training directorate, Muzammil Hussain, told foreign media in the garrison town of Rawalpindi, neighbouring Islamabad.

The "Azm-e-Nau-3" or New Resolve exercise will mobilise 20,000 troops in the beginning, rising to 40,000 to 50,000 towards the end, he said.

The exercises will involve all branches of the military, including the air force, and will focus on the possibility of "conventional war on the country's eastern border," Hussain said.

Relations between Pakistan and India have been bedevilled by an atmosphere of mistrust and tensions over the unresolved Jammu and Kashmir dispute.

Last February, the two nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours held their first official talks since the 2008 Mumbai attacks when 10 Islamist gunmen targeted India's financial capital, killing 166 people.

India blamed the attack on Pakistan-based militants and said talks could only resume if Islamabad took concrete steps to bring those responsible to justice and cracked down on groups operating on its soil.

Under US pressure, Pakistan has diverted troops to battle against homegrown Taliban militants increasingly seen as a threat to national security in the northwest of the country -- although the establishment still sees India as the primary threat.

India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence in 1947 -- two of them over the fate of the Himalyan territory of Kashmir.

"We cannot remain oblivious to what happens on our eastern borders," Hussain told reporters.

"Pakistan desires peace and security both within and beyond," he said, adding that maintaining peace and security is the army's "key strategic policy".

AFP: Pakistan to launch war games on eastern border

 

[Bas_tum_Pak]

^
caring and sharing from Across the Border , Welcome Welcome

 

[Areesh]

games... when few hours ago , series of bombs blasted??/

What a ridiculous and weird post that was.

 

[Imran Khan]

sorry wrong post

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Imran the BLA bastards are no serious issue as it was months back.Looks like govt. has reached down to them and forced the afghan govt. to crack them.
Remember Karzais statement when he said afghanistan is the twin brother of Pakistan and tht they wont allow india to use there soil against Pakistan.

 

[air marshal]

Major Gen Muzammil briefs media about Army Exercise ‘Azm-e-Nau-3’

RAWALPINDI, April 5 (APP): The Army Field Exercise, “Azm-e-Nau-3”, is scheduled to be held from April 10 to May 13, 2010. The field exercise involves troops belonging to all arms and services and also includes Pakistan Air Force.

The exercise is a culmination of a long and deliberate 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 process manifested in the form of tactical, operational and organizational aspects, which would be validated and refined through the lessons learnt.

The process commenced with Army War Games named Exercise AZM-E-NAU-2, conducted in February 2010.

It is prudent to note that 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.

In the light of vision of chief of army staff a comprehensive training package in the form of "Year of Training" in 2009-2010 was planned 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 forth coming 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 practiced /utilized in the exercise to validate their efficacy.

PAF Exercise "HIGH MARK 2010" would be fully integrated with Army Field Exercise.

 

[T-Faz]

NEW DELHI: In a coincidence that has the potential of raising tension levels, the Indian and Pakistani militaries would be conducting major wargames later this month virtually within shouting distance from each other.

Both exercises, involving thousands of troops, aim to test offensive strategies in the event of an armed conflict with the other side and will have active participation of their respective air forces.

The Indian Army will launch its month-long wargames in mid-April in the Thar desert. Called 'Yodha Shakti', the games will involve one of its three principal 'strike' formations, the Mathura-based 1 Corps.

It will practice a 'pro-active' war strategy revolving around the objective of mobilizing fast under 'the cold start' doctrine and striking hard across the border to pulverize the enemy.

Around the same time - from April 10 to May 13 - Pakistan will conduct its 'Azm-e-Nau-III' (new resolve) exercise, described as its biggest wargames in two decades, to train for a conventional war with India.

The manoeuvres will be held near the border in the country's Punjab and Sindh provinces - close to Rajasthan's Thar desert.

Pakistan's exercise will be massive. "It's aimed at validating and refining newly evolved doctrines," the head of Pakistan army's military training directorate, Muzammil Hussain, said in Rawalpindi. Azm-e-Nau-III will mobilize 20,000 troops in the beginning, rising to 40,000 to 50,000 towards the end, he said.

The Indian Army, learning lessons from the slow mobilization during Operation Parakram - the 10-month forward troop mobilization after the December 2001 terrorist attack on Parliament - will practice launching self-contained and highly-mobile 'battle groups,' with Russian-origin T-90S tanks and upgraded T-72 M1 tanks at their core, within 96 hours.

"The exercise will be a two-sided, day-and-night affair, with rapid and deep offensives being undertaken by the battle groups to assault and capture 'enemy' territory. It will also validate our logistics infrastructure as well as new acquisitions," said a senior officer.

The wargames will also have a big IAF component in the drive to achieve greater synergy. Both the western and southwestern IAF commands have stepped up coordination with the different Army commands in the western theatre to synergize efforts to build "an integrated and organic" air-land war-fighting machinery.

Though the Indian armed forces may be now raising two new infantry divisions and an artillery brigade as well as deploying Sukhoi-30MKI fighters in the eastern sector to counter China, they are not diluting their traditional focus on the western front with Pakistan.

The forces, in fact, are reinforcing their offensive punch along the entire western front. For one, IAF will operationalize a forward airbase at Phalodi in Rajasthan on Tuesday. Jaguars will be the first fighters to land at the new airbase on Tuesday to mark its inauguration by IAF chief Air Chief Marshal P V Naik.

The Phalodi airbase, strategically located since it falls in the middle of the 'triangle' constituted by Jaisalmer, Nal (Bikaner) and Jodhpur airbases, aims to plug operational and air defence gaps in the western front.

"The 24x7 airbase, equipped to handle potent fighters like the Sukhoi-30MKIs and heavy-lift aircraft, will provide us
with requisite flexibility," said a senior officer.

This comes even as the newish South-Western Army Command (SWAC) at Jaipur, established as the sixth operational command of the 1.13-million strong Army in 2005, is fully up and running now.

With the Mathura-based 1 'Strike' Corps and Bhatinda-based 10 'Pivot' Corps under it, SWAC is responsible for offensive operations on the western front in conjunction with the Chandimandir-based Western Army Command (WAC), which controls the Ambala-based 2 'Strike' Corps.

Northern and Southern (which has the Bhopal-based 21 'Strike' Corps) Army Commands, at Udhampur and Pune respectively, will of course play crucial roles in the event of a war but it will be SWAC and WAC which will assume the pivotal roles.

India, Pak to launch major wargames at same time - India - The Times of India

This looks like fun, I want to be there with a gun myself.

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[CONNAN]

Islamabad: The Pakistan Army will launch its biggest ever wargame next week to train for the threat of a conventional war with India, top military officials said on Monday.

"These exercises will be focused only on conventional war on (Pakistan's) eastern border," Maj Gen Muzammil Hussain, the Director General of Military Training, told a news briefing in Rawalpindi.

The exercise, codenamed Azm-e-Nau (New Resolve) 3, will involve close to 50,000 troops and aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force.

The wargame, to begin on April 10 and continue till May 13, will be the largest manoeuvres conducted by the army since the Zarb-e-Momin exercise in 1989.

The wargame will be conducted in Punjab and Sindh provinces, which border India, officials said.

The upcoming exercise is of a conventional nature and "aimed at ensuring peace in the region by encountering threats through a strategic approach", said chief military spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas.

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He added that India had been informed about the manoeuvres.

The Pakistan Army has traditionally perceived India as its main threat though security experts, including those from the US, have said the force now needs to focus on tackling the Taliban and other militant groups active along the western border with Afghanistan.

Hussain said the army is aware of internal security issues but could not "be oblivious to what could happen on the eastern border" with India.

The six-week field exercise will involve troops from all arms and services and aircraft and equipment of the Pakistan Air Force, he said.

"The exercise is the culmination of a long and deliberate process of wargames, discussions and logical evolution of the concept of warfare that is fully responsive to a wide range of emerging threats," Hussain said.

The exercise is also aimed at validating and refining tactics and operations, he said.

It will validate concepts formulated during the year of training initiated by army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, he added.

A special feature of the exercise will be the use of technological achievements and advancement in intelligence- gathering, surveillance, reconnaissance and communication.

These measures will reduce the reaction time of troops, Hussain said.

 

[air marshal]

 

[karan.1970]

India, Pak to launch major wargames at same time - India - The Times of India

NEW DELHI: In a coincidence that has the potential of raising tension levels, the Indian and Pakistani militaries would be conducting major wargames later this month virtually within shouting distance from each other.

Both exercises, involving thousands of troops, aim to test offensive strategies in the event of an armed conflict with the other side and will have active participation of their respective air forces.

The Indian Army will launch its month-long wargames in mid-April in the Thar desert. Called 'Yodha Shakti', the games will involve one of its three principal 'strike' formations, the Mathura-based 1 Corps.

It will practice a 'pro-active' war strategy revolving around the objective of mobilizing fast under 'the cold start' doctrine and striking hard across the border to pulverize the enemy.

Around the same time - from April 10 to May 13 - Pakistan will conduct its 'Azm-e-Nau-III' (new resolve) exercise, described as its biggest wargames in two decades, to train for a conventional war with India.

The manoeuvres will be held near the border in the country's Punjab and Sindh provinces - close to Rajasthan's Thar desert.

Pakistan's exercise will be massive. "It's aimed at validating and refining newly evolved doctrines," the head of Pakistan army's military training directorate, Muzammil Hussain, said in Rawalpindi. Azm-e-Nau-III will mobilize 20,000 troops in the beginning, rising to 40,000 to 50,000 towards the end, he said.

The Indian Army, learning lessons from the slow mobilization during Operation Parakram - the 10-month forward troop mobilization after the December 2001 terrorist attack on Parliament - will practice launching self-contained and highly-mobile 'battle groups,' with Russian-origin T-90S tanks and upgraded T-72 M1 tanks at their core, within 96 hours.

"The exercise will be a two-sided, day-and-night affair, with rapid and deep offensives being undertaken by the battle groups to assault and capture 'enemy' territory. It will also validate our logistics infrastructure as well as new acquisitions," said a senior officer.

The wargames will also have a big IAF component in the drive to achieve greater synergy. Both the western and southwestern IAF commands have stepped up coordination with the different Army commands in the western theatre to synergize efforts to build "an integrated and organic" air-land war-fighting machinery.

Though the Indian armed forces may be now raising two new infantry divisions and an artillery brigade as well as deploying Sukhoi-30MKI fighters in the eastern sector to counter China, they are not diluting their traditional focus on the western front with Pakistan.

The forces, in fact, are reinforcing their offensive punch along the entire western front. For one, IAF will operationalize a forward airbase at Phalodi in Rajasthan on Tuesday. Jaguars will be the first fighters to land at the new airbase on Tuesday to mark its inauguration by IAF chief Air Chief Marshal P V Naik.

The Phalodi airbase, strategically located since it falls in the middle of the 'triangle' constituted by Jaisalmer, Nal (Bikaner) and Jodhpur airbases, aims to plug operational and air defence gaps in the western front.

"The 24x7 airbase, equipped to handle potent fighters like the Sukhoi-30MKIs and heavy-lift aircraft, will provide us
with requisite flexibility," said a senior officer.

This comes even as the newish South-Western Army Command (SWAC) at Jaipur, established as the sixth operational command of the 1.13-million strong Army in 2005, is fully up and running now.

With the Mathura-based 1 'Strike' Corps and Bhatinda-based 10 'Pivot' Corps under it, SWAC is responsible for offensive operations on the western front in conjunction with the Chandimandir-based Western Army Command (WAC), which controls the Ambala-based 2 'Strike' Corps.

Northern and Southern (which has the Bhopal-based 21 'Strike' Corps) Army Commands, at Udhampur and Pune respectively, will of course play crucial roles in the event of a war but it will be SWAC and WAC which will assume the pivotal roles.

 

[air marshal]