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For sixty-one years, the Joint Forces Staff College (JFSC) has educated officers from all military services in the art and profession of warfighting. JFSC is the Norfolk, Virginia component of the National Defense University, our nation's premier joint professional military education (JPME) institution. For most of its history, JFSC offered one course of instruction primarily for intermediate level officers. Today, there are nine different courses, some targeting senior U.S. military officers and others incorporating interagency and international officer participation. The affective learning process practiced at JFSC sets the conditions to prepare graduates to effectively apply joint doctrine and succeed in a joint environment. They are equipped to lead the joint planning, operations, and coordination efforts that are accomplished by a wide variety of U.S. and international military services and agencies. The comprehensive and diverse curricula taught in an affective learning environment is relevant, timely, and particularly rooted in an ever changing global context. Additionally, JFSC emphasizes international security within all of its programs, focusing efforts on developing even greater responsiveness to the complex and dynamic contemporary operating environment. It is with great pride and pleasure that I provide the following overview of our programs of study to the readers of the DISAM Journal.
Why Joint Forces Staff College?
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the...