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Exercise Nomadic Elephant is designed with an aim to train the troops in Counter Insurgency & Counter Terrorism Operations (CICT Ops) under the United Nations mandate. It also seeks to promote military associations between India and Mongolia. The first joint Nomadic Elephant was held in the year 2004 and is conducted annualy since then. The recent exercise was Nomadic Elephant XII which was conducted from 5th to 18th April 2017 at Vairengte in Mizoram. Vairengte houses Indian Army’s elite Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School.The participating unit(s) from indian army was Jammu & Kashmir Rifles contingent and from Mangolia was Special Forces Task Battalion. It was a two week exercise.