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WEU: First exercise

01 January 1997

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The first operational exercise to be carried out by the Western European Union (WEU) was held on the Spanish island of Lanzarote between December 12 and 17 last year. It was the third and final stage of "Crisex 95/96", a crisis management exercise designed to test the capabilities of the WEU-countries in mounting a forward command post for a task force sent to administer humanitarian aid in a fictitious country facing civil war. Some 200 personnel, under the command of a Spanish general, were flown into the island; 150 of them came from Eurocorps (Germany, France, Spain, Belgium) and 50 from WEU-countries not belonging to Eurocorps (UK, Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Greece). Crisex 95/96 began a year earlier with a simulated consultation between WEU's headquarters in Brussels and governments of member countries where the decision was taken to intervene in the supposed crisis.

Jane's Military Exercise & Training Monitor, Fourth quarter 1996

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