Fuerzas Unidas
A combined joint task force was formed for Fuerzas Unidas-Peacekeeping Operations '95, a command post and field training exercise that was conducted from August 21 to September 1 in Buenos Aires. Hosted by the Argentinean army, the exercise was held under the sponsorship of U.S. Southern Command with more than 250 participants, including both military and civilian personnel from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and the United States.
Of the players, over 80 percent of the Argentines, Brazilians, Uruguayans, and Americans had previously served in at least one peace operation. The exercise drew 50 representatives from 17 countries and the United Nations as well as observers from the National Security Council Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Warfighting Center, National Defense University, et al.
The Argentinean army war college provided the venue for a series of planning conferences and a computer simulation, which was driven by a master events scenario list and which used both the joint conflict model and the civil affairs model. Participants also toured the newly established Argentinean Joint Peacekeeping Training Center (CAECOPAZ) located at Campo de Mayo outside Buenos Aires.
Overall, the exercise offered opportunities to enhance military-to-military relations, foster regional security cooperation, and demonstrate roles and missions of armed forces in peace operations.
A follow-on exercise was planned for August 1996 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The "Fuerzas Unidas peace-keeping operations - 96 SOUTHAM" military exercise, which was held in August in Uruguay, involved about 300 soldiers from four South American countries and the United States.
For the first time, UN personnel were active participants in the training of peace-keepers, as some 400 civilian and military personnel attend Fuerzas Unidas -- Peace-keeping Operations '97 South America, hosted by Brazil and cosponsored by the United States Southern Command. The UN Secretary-General's Military Adviser, Major General Franklin van Kappen, led a 21-person UN team with representatives from various UN departments and agencies, and will participate in two panels on UN peace- keeping. The exercise helped the United Nations and other participants to develop further peace-keeping doctrine and training standards, and to coordinate performance standards for peace-keepers. The exercise scenario involved a fictional UN peacekeeping operation in a fictional nation. The events in the exercise were based on issues identified in peace-keeping operations, including human rights, ethnic rivalries and the breakdown of civil order.
United Counter Drugs (UCD) is an antidrug initiative sponsored by the Government of the United States of America through its U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) and supported by the Organization of American States through the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (OAS/CICAD) and Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).
Argentina, Colombia and Ecuador sent air force teams to take part in the Fuerzas Unidas-Counterdrug '95 command post exercise, aimed at improving cooperation between the participating nations' military drug-fighting forces. Panama sent observers. The objective of the exercise was to create an environment where participants will be encouraged to share information and better cooperate with each other when dealing with suspected drug traffickers. The three-day command post exercise was held at Albrook Air Station, Panama.
UCD2001 was the sixth in a series of multinational counter-drug initiatives (Fuerzas Unidas Contra Drogas (FUCD) Riverine 96, FUCD 97; UCD98, UCD99 and UCD 2000). While it began as something with a particular military focus, it evolved over time to take on a more multi-agency character consistent with counter-drug efforts in the region. UCD is an informal forum that promotes frank and open discussion among the PN's.
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