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United Counterdrug
2000 Seminar - Miami and Key West, FL1
| United
Counterdrug 00 Seminar, February 28-March 3; July 17-21, 2000 |
| Exercise
type |
Foreign
Military Interaction Seminar
"Foreign
Military Interaction" or "multinational" exercises
are carried out jointly with other militaries, normally several
at a time.
Participants
in seminars learn and exchange skills through lectures and classroom-style
discussion.
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| Mission |
A
Southcom document lists five objectives for the seminar:
- Improve
regional cooperation / coordination
- Increase
mutual confidence among participants
- Identify
emerging narcotrafficking trends
- Enhance
coordination among PN (participating nations) and JIATF (Joint
Interagency Task Force, a U.S. anti-drug intelligence-gathering
facility at Key West, Florida)
- Recommend
specific initiatives to support PN (participating nations') and
regional CD (counter-drug) coordination
The
seminar was held in two parts. Participants met in Miami on March
6-10, 2000 to discuss the following:
- Trends
analysis
- Articulate
national priorities (goals and objectives)
- Describe
programs / efforts
Participants
met again at Key West on July 17-21 to discuss cooperation and coordination
of programs and efforts.
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| Implemented
by |
U.S.
Southern Command Headquarters |
| Location |
Miami
and Key West, Florida |
| Participating
militaries |
U.S.,
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico,
Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela |
United Counterdrug
98 Seminar - Key West, FL2
| United
Counterdrug 98 Seminar, April 27-30, June 2, July 20-24, September
17-18, 1998 |
| Exercise
type |
Foreign
Military Interaction Seminar
"Foreign
Military Interaction" or "multinational" exercises
are carried out jointly with other militaries, normally several
at a time.
Participants
in seminars learn and exchange skills through lectures and classroom-style
discussion.
|
| Mission |
Counternarcotics
operations. United Counterdrug 98 was the third in a series of exercises.
The series began with Riverine 96, a command post exercise held at
Albrook Air Force Station in Panama (now closed) in September 1996.
Riverine 96 involved 120 participants from the United States, Bolivia,
Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. The second exercise in the series, Fuerzas
Unidas Counterdrug 98, was held at the Littoral Warfare Training Center
at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, from August 4-14, 1997. This command
post exercise involved 182 participants from the United States, Bolivia,
Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.
This
third phase began when multi-national interagency working groups
met April 27-30, 1998 in Miami. A "Voceros Conference"
was held June 2, 1998 in Washington DC, and a second working group
meeting was held July 20-24 in Key West. The exercise culminated
with a Distinguished Visitor Program meeting September 17-18, 1998.
Participants
in the working group meetings divided into national teams with seven
individuals per nation, each individual representing a particular
category (interdiction, drug enforcement, national drug oversight,
detection and monitoring, foreign policy, customs and the country
embassy). The teams analyzed case studies on actual counter-drug
operations. They presented their conclusions, including key lessons
learned, to the distinguished visitors at the September meeting.
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| Implemented
by |
U.S.
Southern Command Headquarters |
| Location |
Key
West, Florida |
| Participating
militaries |
U.S.,
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, Venezuela |
Sources:
1
United States, Department of Defense, U.S. Southern Command, "United
Counterdrug 2000." Slideshow document (U.S. Southern Command: 2000).
2
United States, Department of Defense, U.S. Southern Command, "United
Counterdrug 98 Concept and Methodology." (U.S. Southern Command:
1998).
United States,
Department of Defense, U.S. Southern Command, "United Counterdrug
98 Distinguished Visitor Program." (U.S. Southern Command: 1998).
Exercise: "United Counterdrug"
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