A military exercise or war game is the employment of military resources in training for military operations, either exploring the effects of warfare or testing strategies without actual combat. This also serves the purpose of ensuring the combat readiness of garrisoned or deployable forces prior to deployment from home base / home station. Following is a List of Joint Defence Exercises of India with different countries which is very important for all government exams like UPSC,SSC,IBPS,SBI,Insurance,Railways,etc
| India + XYZ | Army | Navy | Air Force |
| ASEAN + | Force 18 | ||
| Australia | AUSTRA HIND | Ausindex / KAKADU | |
| Bangladesh | Sampriti | ||
| China | Hand in hand | ||
| France | Shakti | Varuna | GARUDA-V |
| Indonesia | GARUDA SHAKT | ||
| IND-INDO CORPAT (Bi-annual)KOMODO (HADR) (Multilateral) IND-INDO BILAT | |||
| Japan | Malabar, Sahyog-Kaijin | ||
| Kazakhstan | Prabal Dostyk | ||
| Kyrgyzstan | Khanjar | ||
| Maldives | Ekuverin | ||
| Mongolia | Nomadic Elephant / KHAN QUEST | ||
| Nepal | Surya Kiran (BIANNUAL) | ||
| Oman | AL NAGAH (SUCCESS) | Naseem Al Bahr | Eastern Bridge-IV |
| Russia | Indra | INDRA NAV | AVIAINDRA-14 |
| Seychelles | LAMITYE | ||
| Singapore | Ex AGNI WARRIOR | SIMBEX | JOINT MILITARY TRAINING |
| Ex BOLD KURUKHESTRA | |||
| South Africa, Brazil | IBSAMAR | ||
| Sri Lanka | Mitra Shakti | SLINEX | |
| Thailand | Maitree / COBRA GOLD (Observer Plus) | INDO-THAI CORPAT (Bi-annual) | SIAM BHARAT |
| UAE | Desert Eagle-II | ||
| UK | Ajeya Warrior / VAJRA PRAHAR | Konkan | Indra Dhanush -IV |
| or “Rainbow”. | |||
| USA | Yudh Abhyas/ Cope | Malabar RIMPAC (Multilateral) | Red Flag |
| Brunei | ADMM+ Exercise (Multilateral) | ||
| Malaysia | ARF DIREx | ||
| Myanmar | IMCOR |
Note: The naval exercise Malabar because a trilateral one with inclusion of Japan as its permanent member from 2015 onwards. [Originally, a bilateral exercise between India and the United States, Japan became a permanent partner in 2015. Past non-permanent participants are Australia and Singapore