Thailand is hosting the 13th edition of the India-Thailand joint military exercise Maitree. The exercise is scheduled to be conducted from 1st to 15th July 2024 at Fort Vachiraprakan in Tak Province, Thailand.
- It is a bilateral exercise first started in 2006 between the Indian Army and the Royal Thai Army.
- Originally called the Thai-Indian Cooperation Field Exercise (TICAFE), the name was changed to Maitree in 2013, aptly meaning “friendship” in Hindi.
- Though it was an annual exercise the last edition of the same exercise was conducted at Umroi, Meghalaya in September 2019.