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The National Defense University


The National Defense University includes the following colleges and schools. Who could guess that the US military needs so many colleges. Their websites make for interesting and alarming reading.

The Business Roundtable and their politico minions will be pleased to know that the courses offered by the various branches of the National Defense University contain plenty of rigor. Perhaps this where the folk as the Reading First branch of NCLB got the idea to insist on a promise from rigor from their grantees. What's good for the two-star general must be good for the kindergartner. After all, the corporate-politico agenda is that students should prepare to be workers in the Global Economy, which is the same thing as preparing for war.



• Industrial College of the Armed Forces
  Mission: The Industrial College of the Armed Forces mission is to prepare selected military and civilians for strategic leadership and success in developing our national security strategy and in evaluating, marshalling, and managing resources in the execution of that strategy.



• Information Resources Management College
  Corporate Partners:
  
  A variety of private sector organizations partner with the college for mutual benefit.
  
  • Blackboard
  
  • CACI
  
  • CIO.COM
  
  • Computer Sciences Corporation
  
  • Gartner
  
  • Government Computer News
  
  • Lockheed Martin IT
  
  • Raytheon
  
  • Robbins-Gioia
  
  You can see college partners here.



• Joint Forces Staff College



• Joint Advanced Warfighting Schools (JAWS)
  Course Description:
  
  The JAWS curriculum is clearly focused on "high end" operational art. This specific and concentrated focus allows for more in-depth immersion and applied rigor than is possible in many more standard military education institutions. Based in part on the existing curricula of the Joint Forces Staff College's Joint and Combined Warfighting School Senior Course, the JAWS curriculum endeavors to balance between operational and strategic studies and between warfighting and war preparation. . . .
  
  NOTE: Successful completion of JAWS will result in the awarding of a Masters Degree in Joint Campaign Planning and Strategy.



• National War College
  
  From the Electives list, 2008
  5102 Insurgency and Terrorism
  5109 Strategy "Brand X"
  5112 Views of the World: Public Opinion at Home and Abroad
  5124 Politics of Humiliation


School for National Security Executive Education

Take a look at the Course Catalog, $850 per 3-credit course.


National Defense University Launches Chief Financial Officer Academy In partnership with the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer, the IRM College announces the creation of the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Academy. . . .


And then there are the Research Centers:


• Institute for National Strategic Studies


• National Strategic Gaming Center (They talk about 'experiential learning.)


• Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs


• Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction


• Center for Technology and National Security Policy
  They list a "recent success" as preparing a Citizen Preparedness Poster on weapons of mass destruction.



• Institute for Homeland Security Studies
  Mission: to provide strategic-level homeland security/homeland defense education and related research contributing to the development of a common understanding of core homeland security principles and of effective inter-agency and multi-jurisdictional homeland security strategies, policies, and processes.



Your tax dollars at work.

— Susan Ohanian
National Defense colleges
2008-06-07


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