{"id":174254,"date":"2025-08-25T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=174254"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:18:10","slug":"exercise-maitree-2025-india-thailand-armies-train-together-in-meghalaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/exercise-maitree-2025-india-thailand-armies-train-together-in-meghalaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Maitree 2025: India-Thailand Armies Train Together in Meghalaya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Indian and Thai armies are set to conduct a joint military exercise titled <strong>\u2018Maitree\u2019<\/strong> at the Umroi cantonment in Meghalaya. This joint military exercise will focus on enhancing operational readiness for joint counter-terrorism operations in semi-urban terrain under the auspices of a UN mandate. The exercise will take place five years after the last of its kind in Tak Province, Thailand. The exercise demonstrates the resilience of India-Thailand defence ties moving forward, as illustrated through naval patrols, exchanges of officer training positions, and regional stability with Thailand\u2019s Act West policy aligning with India\u2019s Act East Strategy.<br>Key points :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Exercise Name &amp; Edition: Maitree, 14th edition.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dates &amp; Location: September 1\u201314; Foreign Training Node, Umroi, Meghalaya.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Focus: Enhance operational readiness for joint counter-terrorism operations in semi-urban terrain, in an occupation governed by a UN mandate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Importance: Five year absence returning to India; last exercise in Tak Province, Thailand.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Last Participation Level: 76 soldiers each from India\u2019s Ladakh Scouts and Thailand&#8217;s 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Defence Cooperation: Defence dialogues, joint naval patrols, joint officer training exchanges, and multilateral military exercises.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Strategic Context: Thailand&#8217;s &#8216;Act West&#8217; aligns with India&#8217;s &#8216;Act East&#8217; strategy for regional stability, maritime security and improvement in defence cooperation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian and Thai armies are set to conduct a joint military exercise titled \u2018Maitree\u2019 at the Umroi cantonment in Meghalaya. This joint military exercise will focus on enhancing operational readiness for joint counter-terrorism operations in semi-urban terrain under the auspices of a UN mandate. The exercise will take place five years after the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":174255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,784],"class_list":["post-174254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-defence-current-affairs","tag-meghalaya-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174256,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174254\/revisions\/174256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}