Staff college

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Staff colleges (also command and staff colleges or war colleges) train military officers in the administrative, staff and policy apects of their profession. It is usual for such training to occur at several levels in a career. For example, as a captain 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 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; and the NATO Defence College.

see also US military staff colleges

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