Staff college
A General Staff School, and the General Staff Academy, Academy of the General Staff or Management Academy ( in Germany until 1945 Military Academy ) serves the purpose to train qualified staff officers in the political, managerial and administrative aspects to possible top post as General Staff officers. This highest military educational institutions have university character usually.
Although there are military schools of this type were in the great powers of the long 19th century, they established themselves, especially after the Second World War. Their creation was based on the recognition that the increasing division of labor in the economy necessitated the establishment of Economic and Administrative Sciences.
Part of the German General Staff training was a study trip in the topographic conditions, military use and other aspects, such as were discussed in the field of ethnography. The purpose of the General Staff training was less the doctrine, as the intention to provide the participants with an independent, progressive learning through self- development.
Especially fragmented the structure of the general staff schools in the armed forces of the United States: its individual branches of the armed forces sometimes have several military academies this Article
Historical examples
- Prussian Military Academy in Berlin
- Bavarian Military Academy in Munich
- Imperial Naval Academy in Kiel
- Military Academy Friedrich Engels of the GDR in Dresden
- École Militaire Supérieure de Guerre in Paris
- Scuola di guerra in Turin
- K.u.k. War School in Vienna
- Academy of the General Staff of the Polish Army in Warsaw
- Nicholas General Staff Academy in St. Petersburg
- General Staff Academy of the USSR in Moscow
- Staff College in Camberley
Today's examples
- Staff College ( FüAkBw ) in Hamburg
- Collège de défense Interarmées in Paris
- NATO Defence College in Rome
- National Defence Academy in Vienna
- Academy of National Defense (Warsaw)
- Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces in Moscow
United Kingdom
- Defence Academy of the United Kingdom in Shrivenham
- Joint Services Command and Staff College ( JSCSC ) in Watchfield
- Royal College of Defence Studies ( RCDS ) in London
- Defence College of Management and Technology (DA- CMT) in Shrivenham
- Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre in Amport
United States
- National Defense University in Washington, D.C. with: National War College
- The College of International Security Affairs
- Industrial College of the Armed Forces
- Information Resources Management College
- Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk (Virginia)
- Defense Acquisition University at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
- Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air Command and Staff College
- Air War College
- U.S. Naval War College in Newport (Rhode Iceland )
- Marine Corps University Marine Corps Base Quantico with: Marine Corps Command and Staff College
- Marine Corps War College
- School of Advanced Warfighting
- U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
- U.S. Army War College in Carlisle (Pennsylvania)
- Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey (California )
- Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio