General Staff School

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A general staff school , also general staff academy , academy of the general staff or leadership academy (in Germany war academy until 1945 ) serves the purpose of training qualified staff officers in the political , management and administrative aspects up to possible top-level posts as general staff officers. These highest military educational institutions usually have a university character .

Although there were war schools of this type among the great powers of the long 19th century , they prevailed especially after the Second World War . Their creation was based on the knowledge that the increasing division of labor in the economy made the establishment of business and administrative colleges necessary.

The structure of general staff schools in the United States' armed forces is particularly fragmented : their individual branches sometimes have several military academies of this type.

Historical examples

Kiel Naval Academy around 1900

Main entrance of the military academy "Friedrich Engels"

Germany / German states

• Prussian War Academy in Berlin
• Bavarian War Academy in Munich
• Wehrmacht Academy in Berlin
• Imperial Naval Academy in Kiel
• Friedrich Engels Military Academy of the GDR in Dresden

France

• École militaire supérieure de guerre in Paris

Italy

• Scuola di guerra in Turin

Austria-Hungary

• kuk war school in Vienna

Poland

• Academy of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces in Warsaw

Russian Empire

• Nicholas General Staff Academy in Saint Petersburg

Soviet Union

• General Staff Academy of the USSR in Moscow

United Kingdom

• Staff College at Camberley

Today's examples

Germany

• Management Academy of the Bundeswehr (FüAkBw) in Hamburg

France

• Collège interarmées de defense in Paris

NATO

• NATO Defense College in Rome

Austria

• National Defense Academy in Vienna

Poland

• Academy for National Defense (Warsaw)

Russian Federation

• Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces in Moscow

Switzerland

• General staff school for higher cadre training for the army in Lucerne / Kriens

United Kingdom

• Defense Academy of the United Kingdom in Shrivenham
• Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC) at Watchfield
• Royal College of Defense Studies (RCDS) in London
• Defense College of Management and Technology (DA-CMT) in Shrivenham
• Armed Forces Chaplaincy Center in Amport

United States

Inter-armed schools

• National Defense University in Washington, DC 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

United States Air Force

• Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base , Alabama Featuring:
  • Air Command and Staff College
  • Air War College

United States Navy and United States Marine Corps

• US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island
• Marine Corps University at Marine Corps Base Quantico Featuring :
  • Marine Corps Command and Staff College
  • Marine Corps War College
  • School of Advanced Warfighting

United States Army

• US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
• US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Graduate Schools

• Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California
• Air Force Institute of Technology on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio

See also

• War Academy
• Military academy