The following is an incomplete list of staff colleges, by continent by country:
Africa Ghana • Ghana Armed Forces Command And Staff College Military Academy And Training Schools,
Teshie,
Accra Kenya • Defense Staff College, Nairobi
Namibia •
Namibia Command and Staff College,
Okahandja Nigeria •
Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji in
Kaduna State South Africa • South African National Defence College,
Thaba Tshwane in
Pretoria,
Gauteng • South Africa National War College, Pretoria •
South African Army College, Pretoria • South African Air Force College, Pretoria • South African Naval Staff College,
Muizenberg, Western Cape • South African Military Health Training Formation, Pretoria
Uganda •
Uganda Senior Command and Staff College,
Kimaka in
Jinja District •
Uganda Junior Staff College,
Jinja in Jinja District
The Americas Argentina •
Escuela Superior de Guerra "Teniente General
Luis María Campos".
Brazil Army •
Escola de Comando e Estado-Maior do Exército • Escola de Aperfeiçoamento de Oficiais • Escola de Aperfeiçoamento de Sargentos das Armas • Escola de Instrução Especializada
Navy • Escola de Guerra Naval
Air Force • Escola de Comando e Estado Maior da Aeronáutica • Escola de Aperfeiçoamento de Oficiais da Aeronáutica
Canada •
Canadian Army Command and Staff College •
Canadian Forces College United States Air Force •
Air University, HQ at Maxwell AFB, Alabama •
USAF Air War College •
School of Advanced Air and Space Studies •
Air Command and Staff College •
Squadron Officer School •
Air Force Institute of Technology (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio)
Army •
U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA •
Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS •
School for Command Preparation •
School of Advanced Military Studies •
Command and General Staff School •
School for Advanced Leadership and Tactics •
U.S. Army Warrant Officer Career College, Fort Rucker, AL
Navy •
Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island •
College of Naval Warfare •
Maritime Advanced Warfighting School •
College of Naval Command and Staff •
Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California
Marines •
Marine Corps University, Marine Corps Base, Quantico, VA •
Marine Corps War College •
School of Advanced Warfighting •
Marine Corps Command and Staff College •
Expeditionary Warfare School Joint •
Defense Acquisition University - five campuses - HQ at Fort Belvoir, Virginia •
National Defense University in Washington D.C. •
National War College •
Industrial College of the Armed Forces •
Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia,
Uruguay •
Military Institute of Advanced Studies Asia Bangladesh •
Defence Services Command And Staff College •
National Defence College China •
People's Liberation Army National Defense University • Nanjing PLA Army Command College • Shijiazhuang PLA Army Command College • PLA Naval Command College • PLA Air Force Command College • PLA Artillery Command College • Second Artillery Corps Command College
India Tri-Service •
National Defence College for
One Star officers and Civil servants •
Defence Services Staff College •
College of Defence Management •
Military Institute of Technology (MILIT) is a Technical Staff College
Army •
Army War College, Mhow Navy •
Naval War College, Goa Air force •
College of Air Warfare Indonesia • National Armed Forces Command and General Staff College •
Army Command and General Staff College • • Air Force Command and General Staff College
Japan Tri-Service •
Joint Staff College (
統合幕僚学校,
Tōgō Bakuryō Gakkō)
JGSDF and IJA •
JGSDF TERCOM (
Rikujō Jieitai Kyōiku Kunren Kenkyū Honbu) •
JGSDF Staff College (,
Rikujō Jieitai Kanbu Gakkō) - Reorganised into TERCOM in 2018 •
Army War College (陸軍大学校,
Rikugun Daigakkō) - Abolished in 1945 •
Army Artillery and Engineer School (,
Rikugun Hōkō Gakkō) - Renamed Army Science School (,
Rikugun Kagaku Gakkō) in 1941, abolished in 1945
JMSDF and IJN •
JMSDF Staff College (
海上自衛隊幹部学校,
Kaikujō Jieitai Kanbu Gakkō) •
Naval War College (
海軍大學校,
Kaigun Daigakkō) - Abolished in 1945
JASDF •
Air Staff College (
航空自衛隊幹部学校,
Kōkū Jieitai Kanbu Gakkō)
Jordan Royal Jordanian Joint Command and Staff College Kuwait Mubarak al-Abdullah Joint Command and Staff College Lebanon •
Fouad Shehab Command and Staff College Nepal • Army Command and Staff College Kathmandu , Nepal • APF Command and Staff College Kathmandu, Nepal
Pakistan •
National Defence University •
Command and Staff College •
PAF Air War College •
Pakistan Navy War College Philippines •
Armed Forces of the Philippines Command and General Staff College Saudi Arabia • Saudi Armed Forces Command and Staff College
Singapore •
Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College Sri Lanka Tri-Service •
National Defence College, Sri Lanka •
Defence Services Command and Staff College •
General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University Army •
Army War College, Buttala •
Volunteer Force Training School •
Army School of Logistics Navy •
Naval and Maritime Academy Air Force •
SLAF Junior Command & Staff College Taiwan (Republic of China) •
National Defense University • Army Command and Staff College • Naval Command and Staff College • Air Command and Staff College
United Arab Emirates • Armed Forces of the UAE Command and Staff College
Europe Finland •
National Defence University (Finland) France •
École de guerre ("War School"). Created in 1993 by the fusion of the four
Écoles supérieures de guerre ("War Higher Schools"). Formerly known as •
Centre des hautes études militaires ("School of Advanced Military Studies"). Created in 1952. The students must have completed the École de guerre. •
Institut des hautes études de la défense nationale (IHEDN, "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.. • ''École supérieure des officiers de réserve spécialistes d'état-major'' (ESORSEM, "Reserve Staff Officers School"). Following the defeat of
Franco-Prussian War, it was created in 1899 by a group of Reserve Officers and then officially became a staff college in 1900. All these schools are seated in the
école militaire in Paris.
Germany •
Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr, Bundeswehr Command and Staff College. •
Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik, Federal Academy for Security Policy.
Italy •
Istituto di Studi Militari Marittimi, The Naval War College located within the Arsenale Marittimo in Venice. •
Istituto di Scienze Militari Aeronautiche, The Aeronautics and Defence Science Institute located in Florence.
Portugal •
Instituto de Estudos Superiores Militares ("Higher Military Studies Institute"),
Portuguese Armed Forces Joint Command and Staff College. Created in 2005 by the fusion of the former three separate
Army,
Navy and
Air Force staff colleges •
Instituto da Defesa Nacional ("National Defense Institute"), Ministry of Defense college for National and International Security policy, created in 1967.
Sweden •
Försvarshögskolan (Stockholm)
Switzerland • Armed Forces College AFC (Luzern)
United Kingdom •
Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (Shrivenham) •
Joint Services Command and Staff College for officers (OF2 to OF6) and Warrant Officers (Shrivenham) • JSCSC was formed by the merger in 1997 of:
Staff College, Camberley (Army),
Royal Naval College, Greenwich and
RAF Staff College, Bracknell and the
Joint Service Defence College •
Royal College of Defence Studies for officers generally of colonel or brigadier rank (OF5/OF6) and civilians (London)
Oceania Australia The
Australian Defence College (ADC) was officially opened in 1999 in
Canberra. It is a Joint organisation, and comprises: • the
Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies (CDSS),
Weston Creek, • the
Australian Command and Staff College (ACSC), Weston Creek, and • the
Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). Prior to the establishment of the Australian Command and Staff College, middle management officer Command and Staff training was conducted at separate single Service staff colleges: • the
RAN Staff Course at the
RAN Staff College at
HMAS Penguin in
Sydney • the
Army Command and Staff Course was conducted at the
Army Command and Staff College at
Fort Queenscliff in
Victoria; and • the
RAAF Staff Course at the
RAAF Staff College at
RAAF Base Fairbairn in
Canberra.
New Zealand •
New Zealand Defence College Intercontinental NATO •
NATO Defence College ==See also==