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Geographically, EU missions outside the Balkans and the DRC have taken place in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Indonesia]], [[Sudan]], [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], and [[Ukraine]]–[[Moldova]]. There is also a judicial mission in [[Iraq]] ([[EUJUST Lex]]). On 28 January 2008, the EU deployed its largest and most multi-national mission to Africa, [[EUFOR Tchad/RCA]].<ref>[http://www.consilium.europa.eu/showPage.aspx?id=1366&lang=en "EUFOR Tchad/RCA"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214224814/http://www.consilium.europa.eu/showPage.aspx?id=1366&lang=en |date=14 December 2014 }} consilium.europa.eu</ref> The UN-mandated mission involves troops from 25 EU states (19 in the field) deployed in areas of eastern [[Chad]] and the north-eastern [[Central African Republic]] in order to improve security in those regions. [[EUFOR Tchad/RCA]] reached full operation capability in mid-September 2008, and handed over security duties to the UN (MINURCAT mission) in mid-March 2009.<ref>Benjamin Pohl (2013). [http://euroakadeemia.ee/materjalid/Logic%20of%20the%20EU%20crises%20mang.pdf "The logic underpinning EU crisis management operations"]. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214175238/http://euroakadeemia.ee/materjalid/Logic%20of%20the%20EU%20crises%20mang.pdf |date=14 December 2014 }}, ''European Security'', 22(3): 307–325, {{doi|10.1080/09662839.2012.726220}}, p. 311.</ref>
The EU launched its first maritime CSDP operation on 12 December 2008 ([[Operation Atalanta]]). The concept of the European Union Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) was created on the back of this operation, which is still successfully combatting [[piracy off the coast of Somalia]] almost a decade later. A second such intervention was launched in 2015 to tackle migration problems in the southern Mediterranean ([[EUNAVFOR Med]]), working under the name [[Operation Sophia|Operation SOPHIA]].
Most of the CSDP missions deployed so far are mandated to support [[Security sector governance and reform|security sector reforms]] (SSR) in host-states. One of the core principles of CSDP support to SSR is local ownership. The EU Council defines ownership as "the appropriation by the local authorities of the commonly agreed objectives and principles".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ifp-ew.eu/resources/EU_Concept_for_ESDP_support_to_Security_Sector_Reform.pdf|title=EU Concept for ESDP support to Security Sector Reform}}</ref> Despite EU's strong rhetorical attachment to the local ownership principle, research shows that CSDP missions continue to be an externally driven, top-down and supply-driven endeavour, resulting often in the low degree of local participation.<ref>{{Cite journal|title='Here is your mission, now own it!' The rhetoric and practice of local ownership in EU interventions|first=Filip|last=Ejdus|date=2 October 2017|journal=European Security|volume=26|issue=4|pages=461–484|doi=10.1080/09662839.2017.1333495|doi-access=free|hdl=1983/d77fa2b0-82f5-4bc7-82f8-0d796a02c2cd|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
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