{"id":86926,"date":"2019-04-03T13:37:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=86926"},"modified":"2019-04-03T13:37:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:37:36","slug":"sri-lanka-to-hold-largest-ever-military-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/03\/sri-lanka-to-hold-largest-ever-military-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to hold largest ever military exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy China.org.cn<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Sri Lanka Army on Wednesday said it would hold the largest ever military exercise in July to coincide with 10 years since the end of the island&#8217;s 30-year civil conflict between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, the army said the month-long military exercise will begin on July 1, with the participation of over 5,000 soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program titled, &#8220;Exercise &#8212; Western Shield,&#8221; will extend from Mannar, in the north to Puttalam, in the north western province, including Kalpitiya, Wilpattu National Park, Mavillu and Thabbowa Forest Reserves and the Western Coastal Belt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exercise will provide the opportunity for army trainees to march through those areas which are not usually accessible to others except for forest conservation authorities, the army said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The army further said that army personnel would also be trained to stay well-attuned, refreshed and upgraded to meet with any future warfare threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Exercise &#8212; Western Shield&#8217;, the biggest ever infantry training module, will make a milestone in the army history,&#8221; the army said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy China.org.cn The Sri Lanka Army on Wednesday said it would hold the largest ever military exercise in July to coincide with 10 years since the end of the island&#8217;s 30-year civil conflict between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. In a statement, the army said the month-long military exercise will begin on July 1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}