الاهداف والرسالة – أكاديمية جوعان بن جاسم للدراسات الدفاعية

Message
The Joint Command and Staff College is an effective educational edifice that educates and trains a group of military officers from the armed forces and other military sectors. It also trains officers from friendly and brotherly countries, in areas of leadership skills, staff duties, human resources management, military mission planning, and joint operations planning and execution.

Mission
The Joint Command and Staff College aims to prepare the student officers from the Armed Forces and security services, elevating their intellectual and research skills, refining their abilities, and qualifying them to assume leadership positions in the future.

General objectives of the course.
The Command and Staff Course aims to achieve the following:
• Improving the ability of the student officers to carry out the staff duties and the command procedures in order to make them capable of being appointed as command and staff officers in the armed forces.
• Enhancing the abilities of the student officers to research, analyze, and develop purposeful and creative thinking in the military and civilian fields of studies, and to provide appropriate scientific solutions to the leadership, operational, and administrative dilemmas that the units and formations of the Armed Forces may face.
• Enriching and deepening the knowledge of the student officers about the organization, roles and fundamentals of using the armed forces in peace and war, and making use of all the resources available to them.
• Raising the efficiency of the student officers in planning and executing operations and analyzing the environment at the tactical and operational level, and addressing the strategic level operation in general.
• Preparing officers for joint planning and multinational operations, and developing their ability to deal with the concepts and terminology used in this type of operations.
• Improving the communication skills of the student officers through work and practical applications.
• Raising the academic level of the student officers in parallel with military training.