Editor's Foreword

460 The MiliTary BalanCe 2010
Table 38 Selected training activity 2009
Date Title location aim Principal Participants/remarks
Sub–Saharan africa
17 January–12
February
DASSA 2009 BEN Joint ex incl avn and AB trg BEL: 600 pers; BEN: 400 pers
22–28 February GOLFINHO PHASE I ANG (Cabo Ledo,
northern Bengo
province)
Prep mapex for later Golfinho ex SADCBRIG participants, 250 pers
14–24 April GOLFINHO PHASE MOZ (Maputo) Prep CPX for later ex stages ANG: 33 pers; BWA; RSA; NAM; DRC; COG;
II
MRT; MWI; Swaziland; ZMB; ZWE. 6,000 pers
total
19–26 May ARG/MEU DJB (Camp Inf trg & CSAREX US: 13th MEU, USS Boxer ARG, 1 LCU, 1 LSD;
Lemonier)
FRA: elm French Foreign Legion
05–25 June SHARED ACCORD BEN Bilateral FTX incl inf and staff US: 400, BEN
09
officer trg
01–29 September GOLFINHO PHASE RSA (Lohatla and Improve SADCBRIG capacity. SADC members incl ANG; BWA; DRC; LSO;
III
Walvis Bay) Joint trg incl pol trg
MWI; MOZ; NAM; RSA 5,000 pers; Swaziland;
TZA; ZMB; ZWE
03–26 September MLIMA
TZA (Arusha/ First EAC ex incl CT and HADR trg TZA: RWA; BDI; KEN; UGA: 1,556 pers.
KILIMANJARO 2009 Tanga)
29 September–13 AFRICA ENDEAVOR GAB (Camp Enhance comms interoperability BEN; BWA; BFA; BDI; CMR; CPV; CHA; DJB;
October
2009
Baraka)
ETH; GAB; GHA; GAM; KEN; LSO; MWI; MRT;
MOR; NAM; NGA; RWA; Sao Tome & Principe;
SEN, SLE; RSA; Swaziland; TZA; UGA; US; ZMB
16–25 October NATURAL FIRE 10 UGA (Kitgum
UGA; KEN; TZA; RWA; BDI; US: 450 pers. 133
District &
Entebbe)
pers each from others
South and Central asia
26–31 January INDRA Arabian Sea Anti-piracy, CT and counternarcotics
trg
IND; RF: 1 CGN, 5 other vessels
02–21 March BOLD
IND Armoured forces trg IND; SGP incl 500 tps from 4th Singapore
KURUKSHETRA
Armoured Bde
05–14 March AMAN 09/PEACE North Arabian Sea MSO ex incl AD and EOD trg AUS; FRA; JPN; KWT; MYS; NGA; PAK; PRC
09
DDG; TUR; UK; US
29 April–03 May SHOMUDRO
TORONGO (SEA
WAVE)
31 July–09
August
REGIONAL
COOPERATION
2009
SAFFRON BANDIT
2009–10
BGD Joint trg for UK forces incl
amphib, jungle and HADR
TJK Disaster preparedness and sy
coop ex; themes incl CT and
crisis response
UK: 1 LPD, 1 FFG, 1 LSD, 250 pers (part of
Taurus 09 deployment); BGD: naval units &
ground troops
Est 240 tps from AFG; KAZ; KGZ; TJK; US; obs
from TKM; UZB
05 September–
n.k
PAK Air ex incl CT trg PAK
14–29 September STEPPE EAGLE KAZ (Illisky trg Trg mil pers in PKO in conflict KAZ, KAZBRIG (Bde HQ plus 1 inf bn); US; UK.
2009
area)
zones
Over 1,300 troops, 100 veh & ac
09–30 October AGNI WARRIOR IND (Devlali) Artillery trg ex IND, incl 283 Fd Regt; SGP incl tps from 23
2009
and 24 Bn, Singapore Artillery
12–29 October YUDH ABHYAS 09 IND (Babina) PKO-focused FTX IND: 7th Mech Inf Bn (94th Armd Bde, 31st
Armd Div); US incl 2-14 Cav Regt (2nd SBCT,
25th ID)
19–24 October COPE INDIA IND (Agra) HADR US: 1 C-17, 1 C-130J, 3 C-130H, 150 pers; IND:
1 IL-76, 4 AN-32, 2 Mi-17; 1 Chetak
east asia and australasia
04–17 February COBRA GOLD THA CPX, FTX, PSO & HADR IDN 113 pers; JPN 75 pers; SGP 106 pers; THA
4,000 pers; US: 1 LHDM, 2 LSD, F-16, F/A-18,
AV-8B, 7,000 pers
02–12 March NORTH WIND JPN (Camp
Makomanai,
Hokkaido)
FTX incl cold weather trg JPN; US; total est 800 pers
09–20 March KEY RESOLVE/FOAL ROK (various Key Resolve mainly a CPX; Foal ROK: 50,000 pers; US: 26,000 pers incl 1 CSG
EAGLE
locations) Eagle mainly an FTX.
24 March–02
April
SIMBEX Andaman Sea,
South China Sea
ASWEX IND: 2 DDG, 1 FS, 1 AOR, MPA SGP: 2 FSG,
FFG, SS, FGA, MPA