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The joint military ‘Exercise - Cormorant Strike IV - 2013’, with more than 2698 tri-service personnel, together with over 40 foreign military participants and observers from six countries, will get underway during Sept 11 - 23 in the eastern areas of Kadiraweli, Vakarai, Thrikonamadu, Thoppigala, Narakamulla and Batticaloa of the Security Force Headquarters - East (SFHQ-E).
This mock Field Training Exercise (FTX), organized by the Army for the fourth consecutive year in close cooperation with Sri Lanka Navy and Air Force was designed for deployment of their troops in a war milieu of Special Operations and planned for conduct of joint operations as one team, using manoeuvrist approach, encompassing planning, execution and command. This year’s theme of the ‘Exercise - Cormorant Strike IV - 2013’ is based on a hypothetical scenario with ‘blue forces’ against ‘red forces’ on a possible aggression by an external power.
The 15-day long Exercise with Army Commando (CR) Regiment and Special Forces (SF) Regiment troops, integrated with Navy and Air Force Special Forces, aims to enhance special operation capabilities and maintain combat readiness at all levels. It also focuses on planning, preparations, formulations, coordination, command, control, tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP), execution of Special Operations within given frameworks and is organized by Army Directorate of Training under the close supervision of Major General A.W.J Crishantha De Silva, Chief of Staff of the Army.
Lieutenant General Daya Ratnayake, Commander of the Army, contributing to the initial preparatory phases of the Exercise, maintained that the Sri Lanka Army, having defeated the world’s most ruthless terrorist outfit, should sustain the status quo in relation to national security concerns and be always well-geared to take on any future challenge against the country or her people as the most prominent defender of the nation.
The whole concept of having such joint military Exercises was mooted by Secretary Defence and Urban Development Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa a few years ago with a view to transmitting and sharing the sea of experiences the Sri Lanka Army gathered in successfully conducting the world’s biggest humanitarian operation.
The multi-national land force leading this Exercise incorporates a wide range of new security dimensions and highlights the significance of sustaining regional security perspective and other possible peripheral threat issues. Under directions of Brigadier Piyal Wickramaratne, Director, ‘Exercise - Cormorant Strike IV - 2013’, the mock Exercise with land, sea and air operations is to be inducted mainly from places, like Thrikonamadu, Trincomalee, Verugal, etc during the conduct.
Initiatives of the Army saw the first joint ‘Exercise Cormorant - I’ in 2010 (Silavathura), ‘Exercise Cormorant - II’ (Trincomalee) in 2011, themed on ‘Hostage Rescue Mission’, and the last year’s ‘Exercise Cormorant - III’ (Thoppigala) in 2012, using the most sophisticated Geo Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning Tracking System. Military representatives from Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Nepal and Pakistan are participating in this year’s Exercise.
This year’s Exercise includes mock ‘Raids on boat yards’, ‘Taking of high value targets’, ‘Reconnaissance’, ‘Surveillance on targets’, ‘Airborne operations’, ‘Seaborne operations’, ‘Amphibious landing’, ‘Path-finding missions’, ‘Para jump into enemy strongholds’, ‘Ambushes’, ‘Search operations’, ‘Counter terrorist actions and Hostage Rescue Mission,’ and suchlike. (Ends)
The joint military ‘Exercise - Cormorant Strike IV - 2013’, with more than 2698 tri-service personnel, together with over 40 foreign military participants and observers from six countries, will get underway during Sept 11 - 23 in the eastern areas of Kadiraweli, Vakarai, Thrikonamadu, Thoppigala, Narakamulla and Batticaloa of the Security Force Headquarters - East (SFHQ-E). This mock Field Training Exercise (FTX), organized by the Army for the fourth consecutive year in close cooperation with Sri Lanka Navy and Air Force was designed for deployment of their troops in a war milieu of Special Operations and planned for conduct of joint operations as one team, using manoeuvrist approach, encompassing planning, execution and command. This year’s theme of the ‘Exercise - Cormorant Strike IV - 2013’ is based on a hypothetical scenario with ‘blue forces’ against ‘red forces’ on a possible aggression by an external power.
The 15-day long Exercise with Army Commando (CR) Regiment and Special Forces (SF) Regiment troops, integrated with Navy and Air Force Special Forces, aims to enhance special operation capabilities and maintain combat readiness at all levels. It also focuses on planning, preparations, formulations, coordination, command, control, tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP), execution of Special Operations within given frameworks and is organized by Army Directorate of Training under the close supervision of Major General A.W.J Crishantha De Silva, Chief of Staff of the Army.
Lieutenant General Daya Ratnayake, Commander of the Army, contributing to the initial preparatory phases of the Exercise, maintained that the Sri Lanka Army, having defeated the world’s most ruthless terrorist outfit, should sustain the status quo in relation to national security concerns and be always well-geared to take on any future challenge against the country or her people as the most prominent defender of the nation.
The whole concept of having such joint military Exercises was mooted by Secretary Defence and Urban Development Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa a few years ago with a view to transmitting and sharing the sea of experiences the Sri Lanka Army gathered in successfully conducting the world’s biggest humanitarian operation.
The multi-national land force leading this Exercise incorporates a wide range of new security dimensions and highlights the significance of sustaining regional security perspective and other possible peripheral threat issues. Under directions of Brigadier Piyal Wickramaratne, Director, ‘Exercise - Cormorant Strike IV - 2013’, the mock Exercise with land, sea and air operations is to be inducted mainly from places, like Thrikonamadu, Trincomalee, Verugal, etc during the conduct.
Initiatives of the Army saw the first joint ‘Exercise Cormorant - I’ in 2010 (Silavathura), ‘Exercise Cormorant - II’ (Trincomalee) in 2011, themed on ‘Hostage Rescue Mission’, and the last year’s ‘Exercise Cormorant - III’ (Thoppigala) in 2012, using the most sophisticated Geo Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning Tracking System. Military representatives from Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Nepal and Pakistan are participating in this year’s Exercise.
This year’s Exercise includes mock ‘Raids on boat yards’, ‘Taking of high value targets’, ‘Reconnaissance’, ‘Surveillance on targets’, ‘Airborne operations’, ‘Seaborne operations’, ‘Amphibious landing’, ‘Path-finding missions’, ‘Para jump into enemy strongholds’, ‘Ambushes’, ‘Search operations’, ‘Counter terrorist actions and Hostage Rescue Mission,’ and suchlike. (Ends)
