Defining Admission Requirements for the Joint Advanced Warfighting School
Abstract
The Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS) has admission requirements that do not allow the school to meet its stated mission goals. JAWS is a new school at the Joint Forces Staff College (JFSC) that awards Joint Professional Military Education, phase one (JPME I); JPME, phase two (JPME II); and Intermediate Level College (ILC) or Senior Level College (SLC) credit in 10 months of education and training. In addition, JAWS is considered equivalent to service Advanced Warfighting Schools (AWS), such as the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), and has been accredited to award Master's degrees. Traditionally, it takes 25 months of education and training to gain all of these qualifications (i.e., ILC or SLC, AWS, and JPME II). Accomplishing all of this in just 10 months demands officers, particularly O-4s, with certain pre-requisites. So what are the attendance requirements for JAWS? According to the "Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 1800.01B, Officer Professional Military Education Policy (OPMEP)," the only requirements for admission are service competency and ILC eligibility. "The JAWS mission is to produce graduates that can create campaign-quality concepts, plan for the employment of all elements of national power, accelerate transformation, succeed as joint force operational/strategic planners, and be creative, conceptual, adaptive and innovative." This mission requires the development of a particular set of leader competencies. This monograph will research and recommend O-4 admission criteria for JAWS.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 26, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA436239
Entities
People
- James G. Sturgeon
Organizations
- United States Army Command and General Staff College