EU Military Exercise (MILEX) type exercises are conducted in an annual basis and they focuses on the interaction among the EU Military Staff (EUMS), an EU Operation Headquarters (OHQ) and an EU Force Headquarters (FHQ) to plan an autonomous CSDP Military Operation.
MILEXs are conducted in a form of a Command Post Exercise (CPX) with the aim to further enhance the EU decision-making military capacity in the area of security and defence within the EU Integrated Approach.
Military Exercise 16 (MILEX 16) was conducted from 17 to 27 May 2016 in the framework of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Greece provided the EL EU OHQ in Larissa and the EL EU FHQ in Nea Santa (Kilkis) as the military EU HQs at the military-strategic and operational levels, respectively, for the needs of the exercise.
The MILEX 16 scenario provided a challenging insight into EU Crisis Response, exposing potential fault lines between the political/military strategic/operational levels concerning objectives and end states, within an EU Comprehensive Approach framework.
