Lessons learned from exercise blue crane

Exercise Blue Crane was a brigade-level peacekeeping exercise conducted in South Africa in April 1999 by most of the SADC countries. This book highlights the various lesson learned from the exercise through reports from the military and civilian components that participated, as well as through observation from the perspective of the international observers and the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations. The Lessons Learned from Exercise Blue Crane will be invaluable for future field exercise for this nature in SADC, and will be very useful for all planners of future exercises in Africa and beyond. In fact many of the lessons extend beyond the realm of the exercise and could impact on the conduct of future peace operations by SADC countries and beyond. This book will therefore be of special interest to peacekeepers throughout the world.