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Staff colleges (also command and staff colleges or war colleges) train military officers in the administrative, staff and policy aspects of their profession. It is usual for such training to occur at several levels in a career. For example, an officer may be sent to various staff courses: as a captain they may be sent to a single service command and staff school to prepare for company command and equivalent staff posts; as a major to a single or joint service college to prepare for battalion command and equivalent staff posts; and as a colonel or brigadier to a higher staff college to prepare for brigade and division command and equivalent postings.
Well known examples of military staff colleges include the United Kingdom's Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, and Royal College of Defence Studies, London; the U.S. Naval War College, Newport, the Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, the Air University, Maxwell AFB, and the National Defense University, Washington in the United States; the NATO Defence College, the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington (India) and the Defence Services Command and Staff College, Sri Lanka.
The success of Staff Colleges spawned, in the mid-twentieth century, a civilian imitation in what are called administrative staff colleges. These institutions apply some of the principles of the education of the military colleges to the executive development of managers from both the public and private sectors of the economy. The first and best-known administrative staff college was that established in Britain at Greenlands near Henley, Oxfordshire and now re-named Henley Management College.
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France staff colleges
- Collège interarmées de défense ("Defense Joint College"). Created in 1993 by the fusion of the four Écoles supérieures de guerre ("War Higher Schools").
- Centre des hautes études militaires ("Center of Advanced Military Studies"). Created in 1952. The students must have completed the Collège interarmées de défense.
- Institut des hautes études de la défense nationale ("Institute of Advanced Defense Studies"). Created in 1936. The students are civilians, both civil servants and high-profile executives, but the students of the Centre des hautes études militaires also attend the Institut.
- Centre des hautes études de l'armemement ("Center of Advanced Ordnance Studies"). The students are military officers and civil servants of the Délégation générale pour l'armement and executives of the arms industry.
United States staff colleges
Military staff colleges in the United States include the following:
Command and Staff Colleges
War Colleges
Graduate Schools
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