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

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[sergente rehan]

Thats good!
We must improve our skills and tecniques as the mordern warfare is quite diffrent from the past wars. New strategies and technologies has deep impact in the mordern war doctrine. Well prepared troops also need to know how to utilize and gain the max result by using all the equipement in their use. These exercises help us to get the right answer to our expectations and results which shows how prepair we are and will help us further improve our war doctrines.

It's a must now, to win any battle/war, the combine operations from all three forces.

We have to further modernised our Armed Forces if we want to stay at the pass with the world and our enemies.

Hope members will post some awesome pics/videos of these exersises, so we all can enjoy!

Pak Armed Forces & Pakistan Zindabad

 

[ajpirzada]

India, Pakistan to launch parallel war games
Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:47:16 GMT
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India's Jaguar aircrafts fly during the inauguration ceremony of the "Aero-India 2009."

India and Pakistan are set to simultaneously hold major war maneuvers involving thousands of troops, in a possible coincidence.

Both countries 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 war games in mid-April in the Thar Desert, code-named 'Yodha Shakti', while Pakistan will be launching its 'Azm-e-Nau-III' (new resolve), exercise from April 10 to May 13.

India said its new Jaguar jet fighters will also be involved in the exercises.

Pakistan said that the exercise will mobilize 20,000 troops in the beginning, expanding to 40,000 to 50,000 towards the end. The maneuvers will be held near the border in the country's Punjab and Sindh provinces — close to Rajasthan's Thar Desert.

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, said a senior Indian officer.

India, Pakistan to launch parallel war games

 

[ajpirzada]

20,000 troops to take part in war games ‘Azm-e-Nau-3’



Tuesday, April 06, 2010
By By Mariana Baabar
ISLAMABAD: For the first time in the history of Pakistan’s military exercises, 20,000 troops from all arms and services, including the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), are set to try the “Modular Method” of field exercises in the Punjab and Sindh.

The last large-scale field exercise, Zarb-e-Momin, was held in 1989, when the Army chief was General Mirza Aslam Beg and the prime minister was Benazir Bhutto. Defence attaches from selected embassies would be invited to witness and evaluate these war games, while India has been informed about these exercises.

“These Army war games, Azm-e-Nau-3,” will be held from April 10 to May 13, which sees the 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 of validation stage of the operational thought process manifested in the form of tactical, operational and organisational aspects, which would be validated and refined through the lessons learnt,” said Director General Military Training Major General Muzammal Hussain while talking in Rawalpindi to the print and electronic media flown in from all over Pakistan.

Though Hussain lacked the eloquence and sophistication of media handling, help was at hand with DG ISPR Major General Athar Abbas, who handled the “trickier” questions thrown by the media in his normal graceful and professional manner.

However, the general was not willing to get into the financial aspect of these field exercises, by giving a definite sum, only saying they would be paid from the Army budget already in place for the fiscal.

The Azm-e-Nau, which will see the Modular Method, might be smaller in size than the Zarb-e-Momin, but it will have the capability to expand on a much larger scale, keeping in mind the present environment and challenges that the nation faces.

According to Muzammal Hussain, India is still the major and very serious concern for Pakistan because of its capabilities and till all the political issues between the two countries are resolved, “no nation could afford to lower its guard.”

He said special care would be taken to ensure that there was no harm to civilian areas or crops and the recent PAF exercise on the motorway in no way created any damage while landing and take-off.

Hussain said the Army was not only training in areas of conventional warfare but training in urban terrorism was also included. He added that today, the Army, while trying to reduce the space for war, was being trained to take on threats, not only from its eastern and western borders, but also from urban terrorism.

Answering a question, Athar Abbas said whether the Army could be involved in matters of internal security, like cleaning and lining of water canals as it had been in the past under General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, was a decision that could only be taken by the Army chief.

“A special feature of this exercise would be harvesting the technological advancements in intelligence gathering, surveillance, reconnaissance and communication means that have revolutionised the 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 the available surveillance and reconnaissance assets would be practised/utilised in the exercise to validate their efficacy,” General Hussain added.

20,000 troops to take part in war games ‘Azm-e-Nau-3’

 

[Ruag]

India said its new Jaguar jet fighters will also be involved in the exercises.

India, Pakistan to launch parallel war games

Lol... till date, I have always found errors in every PressTV article I've read so far.

How are Jaguar fighters "new"? They must be thinking about Sukhois or Hawks, but the Jaguars are more than two decades old.

 

[ajpirzada]

ya i was thinkin about that. then i assumed they are talking about some recently upgraded jaguars

 

[VrSoLdIeRs]

is it as big as zarb e momin?

 

[DaRk WaVe]

the word 'conventional war' is been repeated & moreover PAF Exercise "HIGH MARK 2010" would be fully integrated with Army Field Exercise

we are serious about countering Indian 'Cold Start' & PA is seeing a possibility of limited war

Army war game in Raj along Pak border this month

New Delhi, Apr 5 (PTI) The Army will hold a month-long war game in the Rajasthan desert along the border with Pakistan to validate its battle concepts including to plug gaps in the night vision capability of its mechanised forces.

Codenamed Yodha Shakti, the annual exercise will also validate its post-Op Parakram 'Cold Start' war doctrine that envisages swiftness in inflicting maximum damage to enemy forces.

"Yodha Shakti will be held for a month from mid April to mid May in the Pokhran ranges and it will validate battle concepts of a Strike Corps with use of its mechanised troops and close air support from IAF's fighter aircraft and attack helicopters," Army officers said here today.

Strike Corps are the most potent force of the Army and in Yodha Shakti, the Army will involve its Mathura-based 1 Corps to practise battle manoeuvres

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[ajpirzada]

is it as big as zarb e momin?

zarb e momin involved some 200000 troops while this one involves max of 50000 troops.

but this one is much more integrated and intelligence based.

 

[Creder]

Anyone know what new training strategies or war tactics Gen. Kayani has introduced ? these reports mention something about validating new concepts and what not.. Im sure this exercise is in regards do validating the new counter strategies to cold start doctrine.. Does anyone have any info on that ?

Atleast Indians, having a big-mouth general got privy to the ever so bold " dhakka start " doctrine, any idea about the counter strategies ?

 

[Donatello]

the word 'conventional war' is been repeated & moreover PAF Exercise "HIGH MARK 2010" would be fully integrated with Army Field Exercise

we are serious about countering Indian 'Cold Start' & PA is seeing a possibility of limited war

Lol,

Thousands of troops and hundreds of modern tanks rolling so close to each other, that too of two armies that have fought 4 bitter wars. hmm, just imagine if some civilian went in there and launched a dummy rocket or something....:p

 

[MZUBAIR]

 

[mjnaushad]

The exercise will involve conventional war exercise and also actions of SSW and SSG are expected. So both Anti terrorism + Conventional war based training.

 

[DaRk WaVe]

Pakistani war games to test Anti-Cold-Start-Strategy​

* These exercises will be focused only on conventional war on the eastern border,” Major-General Muzamil Hussain, director-general of army training, told a news briefing.
* Pakistan’s army will launch its biggest manoeuvres in 20 years next week to deal with the threat of conventional war with old rival India, military officials said on Monday.
* “These exercises will be focused only on conventional war on the eastern border,” Major-General Muzamil Hussain, director-general of army training, told a news briefing.
* Military spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas said India had been informed of the exercise.
* The army conducted its biggest-ever exercises involving 200,000 soldiers in 1989.
* 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.

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.

* During the exercises, plans prepared for prevention of terrorist attacks will be implemented and capabilities of Pakistan army in times of peace as well as war will be improved.
* Furthermore, attention will be given to communication, intelligence information and modern technology.
* Responding to the “Surgical Strikes”: Neutralizing Delhi’s Cold Start strategy:
* Nuclear deterrence & Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) blunts Bharat’s Cold Start Strategy
* Why India did not attack Pakistan in 2002 and 2008?
* The India-Pakistan war
* Delhi’s Cold Start Strategy Frozen DOA (Dead on Arrival)
* Responding to the “Surgical Strikes”: Neutralizing Delhi’s Cold Start strategy:
* Pakistani response to “India’s Cold start strategy”: Limited strikes against targets vs Hot War leading to Nuclear Armageddon
* Indian Airforce crying wolf? or facing shortage of jets?
* India’s Cold War strategy guarantees hot war—Nuclear annihilation

Last February, the two nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours held their first official talks since the 2008 Mumbai attacks …

Under US pressure, Pakistan has diverted troops … — 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”.

* 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.

* The essence of the Cold Start doctrine is reorganising the army’s offensive power that resides in the three strike corps into eight smaller division-sized integrated battle groups (IBGs) consisting of armour and mechanised infantry and artillery, closely supported by helicopter gunships, air force and airborne troops (parachute and heliborne).
* The IBGs are to be positioned close to the border so that three to five are launched into Pakistan along different axes within 72 to 96 hours from the time mobilisation is ordered.
* Cold Start thus envisages rapid thrusts even when the defensive corps’ deployment is yet to be completed, and high-speed operations conducted day and night until the designated objectives are achieved
* The probable objective areas for Cold Start could be (1) Ravi-Chenab corridor from two directions, an IBG along Jammu-Sialkot-Daska axis and another across the Ravi to link up with the first IBG, and (2) in the south against Reti-Rahim Yar Khan-Kashmore complex.
* To counter Cold Start, the Pakistan Army will have to create more armour-dominated brigade-sized reserves from the existing resources if possible, and a more flexible military system and structure.
* For Pakistan the dimensions of time and space assume paramount importance as it lacks territorial depth, is opposed by a larger adversary and lacks the resources to fight a protracted war.
* The strategy of pre-emption is thus imposed on Pakistan in the same way it was imposed on Israel prior to the 1967 war.
* The fact that the Pakistani Army can occupy their wartime locations earlier than the Indian army confers on it the ability to pre-empt Cold Start;
* failure to do so could lead to firing of low-yield tactical warheads at IBGs as they cross the start line or even earlier

SAMAA/AGENCIES

Until 2004 the Indian army’s strategic thought envisaged the deployment of seven corps in defensive role and three corps in offensive role each built around an armoured division supported by mechanised infantry and artillery. After the defensive corps had blunted Pakistani attacks, the strike corps would undertake counter-offensive operations aimed at the destruction of the Pakistan Army’s two strategic reserves also built around an armoured division.

After Operation Parakaram the Indian army concluded that this doctrine was inflexible because of the huge size of the strike corps — they have long deployment times, are difficult to manoeuvre, while their concentration in the forward areas gives away the general strategic direction they would adopt. And above all, the doctrine inhibited a quick response to challenges posed by acts like the attack on the Indian parliament (and seven years later in Mumbai).

As a consequence, in 2004 the Indian army announced the development of a new limited war doctrine called Cold Start to respond to what it calls proxy wars by Pakistan. It would seek to inflict significant damage on the Pakistan Army before the international community could intervene on Pakistan’s behalf, while at the same time ensuring that the conflict did not escalate to a level where Pakistan was tempted to use nuclear weapons.

The essence of the Cold Start doctrine is reorganising the army’s offensive power that resides in the three strike corps into eight smaller division-sized integrated battle groups (IBGs) consisting of armour and mechanised infantry and artillery, closely supported by helicopter gunships, air force and airborne troops (parachute and heliborne). The IBGs are to be positioned close to the border so that three to five are launched into Pakistan along different axes within 72 to 96 hours from the time mobilisation is ordered.

Cold Start thus envisages rapid thrusts even when the defensive corps’ deployment is yet to be completed, and high-speed operations conducted day and night until the designated objectives are achieved.

In a war limited by time, mobility is the single-most important factor which if used to its full potential will help attain the political aim in the desired time and space framework. But this requires a perfect matching of the physical means of mobility with the mobility of the mind, as the value of a highly mobile force can be reduced to zero by commanders whose minds are characterised by lack of imagination, initiative and flexibility. “Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and lost more battles and lives than any other cause in war. No man of fixed opinions can make a good general.” (J.F.C. Fuller)

In the 1965 war the Indian 1 Corps, spearheaded by the 1st Armoured Division, had penetrated seven miles only into Pakistani territory in Sialkot sector in 21 days, while in the 1971 war, the same corps having about eight tank units did marginally better by penetrating eight miles in 14 days, that too when opposed by light covering troops. In both wars the Indian army was schematic in its operations. Changes in dispositions such as forming a new defensive line, reassigning of objectives, switching forces not in accordance with their original plan, took time. Above all, their commanders at all levels lacked enterprise, imagination and initiative.

Given this, while Cold Start is a sound concept, though not original, the Indian war directors need to question the ability of their commanders at all levels to execute it efficiently and sustain the advantage gained from striking first. The “law of the initial advantage of the aggressor” assumes critical importance, as it is the aggressor who generally sets the pattern which operations will take. The Germans in the Second World War and the Israelis in the 1956 and 1967 wars had translated the concept of blitzkrieg, characterised by surprise, speed and concentration, with devastating results against numerically superior forces because they had a flair for conducting high-speed operations with flexibility, rapidity and less military routine.

The probable objective areas for Cold Start could be (1) Ravi-Chenab corridor from two directions, an IBG along Jammu-Sialkot-Daska axis and another across the Ravi to link up with the first IBG, and (2) in the south against Reti-Rahim Yar Khan-Kashmore complex. To counter Cold Start, the Pakistan Army will have to create more armour-dominated brigade-sized reserves from the existing resources if possible, and a more flexible military system and structure.

For Pakistan the dimensions of time and space assume paramount importance as it lacks territorial depth, is opposed by a larger adversary and lacks the resources to fight a protracted war. The strategy of pre-emption is thus imposed on Pakistan in the same way it was imposed on Israel prior to the 1967 war. The fact that the Pakistani Army can occupy their wartime locations earlier than the Indian army confers on it the ability to pre-empt Cold Start; failure to do so could lead to firing of low-yield tactical warheads at IBGs as they cross the start line or even earlier.

Cold Start would be a portent of escalation, and inevitably a disaster for both. It is a doctrine that challenges both countries. The writer is a retired brigadier of the Pakistan Army.

Pakistani war games to test Anti-Cold-Start-Strategy Military Strategy

 

[DaRk WaVe]

will you explain this picture, The plane in the picture is a JF-17