Muscat: The Academy for Strategic and Defence Studies honored the completion of the 38th Joint Command and Staff College class on Wednesday at its headquarters in Bait Al Falaj Camp, under the patronage of Dr. Mohammed Nasser Al Zaabi, Secretary General of the Ministry of Defence. Maj. Gen. Hamid Ahmed Sakroon, Chairman of the Academy for Strategic and Defence Studies, attended the event.
During the event, the chief guest presented prizes to the course's top graduates.
It is important to note that the 38th Joint Command and Staff College course, which began in August of last year, included not only officials from the Ministry of Defence and the Sultan's Armed Forces, but also additional military and security services, as well as several officials from GCC nations and Arab and friendly countries.
The course syllabus included three key phases, which included tactical and operational exercises as well as speeches by Undersecretaries and Ambassadors. The course concluded with the Determination exercise, which was the culmination of a series of training exercises.
The Joint Command and Staff College's goal is to provide officer trainees with military sciences and prepare them to be competent operational leaders and staff officers who can operate in a range of settings and circumstances, in accordance with the most recent developments in military education.
The graduation event was attended by several ministers, commanders of the Sultan's Armed Forces, and military and security services, ambassadors from Arab countries, senior officers of the Sultan's Armed Forces and other military and security services, military attachés from Arab and friendly embassies in Muscat, and members of the college's academic and instructional staff.
