Welcome
On behalf of the staff and faculty, welcome to the Joint and Combined Warfighting School (JCWS) Homepage.
The JCWS Curriculum is designed to provide our students with an opportunity to experience all of the plans and operational challenges that a Joint Specialty Officer should anticipate over a three-year joint duty assignment—from Joint Staff to a Joint Task Force and Service Component Staff. Lessons progress through the contingency planning cycle, punctuated with numerous crisis action planning opportunities. Students' skills are developed working as part of the fictitious US Africa Command (USAFCOM) joint planning group and different joint boards and centers.
JCWS educates O-4s through O-6s in the art and science of joint, interagency, and multinational planning and warfighting primarily at the operational level of war as directed by the CJCS Officer Professional Military Education Policy. Students will be organized into 13-15 seminars with 16-20 students in each seminar. The seminars consist of officers from all services, SOF, International Officers, and occasionally, defense agency and interagency civilians. Students are assigned to seminars with the intent to provide an optimum mix of Service, grade, experience, specialty, and expected follow-on assignment potential.
The faculty of the Joint Combined Warfighting School (JCWS) consists ofO-4s to O-6s from all Services with joint experience and civilian instructors/professors. In addition to this highly qualified staff, students have multiple occasions to meet and discuss issues with active and retired flag/general officers and Ambassadors. These retired flag/general officers and Ambassadors (Senior Fellows) are an integral part of the seminar and are a key element of the learning experience. Additionally, the school employs several distinguished academics and a variety of subject matter experts throughout the course in the role of guest speaker and as a participant in seminar forums, formally and informally.
For those of you attending the course soon, visit JFSC's Student Welcoming Information. This will help you and your command complete all the necessary preparations prior to your arrival at the Staff College.
Our main objective is always to support the war fighter. We ask for your feedback to help us accomplish this. If you are an alum, we would especially appreciate your continued and frank evaluation of your education at JCWS.
We hope you find your visit to our site worth your time and will continue to come back.
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