Joint Forces Staff College

 

 

The Norfolk Campus

           

The Joint Forces Staff College, located in Norfolk, Virginia, was established as the Armed Forces Staff College in 1946 and incorporated into the National Defense University in August 1981.  The Commandant is a general or flag officer who occupies a nominative position that rotates among the four Services.  The JFSC Commandant is directly responsible to the university President for fulfillment of the college mission—to educate staff officers and other leaders in joint operational-level planning and warfighting in order to instill a primary commitment to joint, multinational, and interagency teamwork, attitudes, and perspectives.

 

Future wars—and future peace efforts—are likely to require the integrated efforts of all Services, numerous government agencies, and many friendly nations.  To be effective, the professional officers of these organizations must master the concepts, principles, and techniques of joint and multinational operations.  The Joint Forces Staff College offers a unique educational opportunity for selected officers to study these subjects.  Among the students are a number of International Officers from several allied nations and representatives of such U.S. Government agencies as the Department of State and Defense Intelligence Agency.

 

Students at the Norfolk campus have the benefit of being part of an inter-Service student body.  The Norfolk metropolitan area affords convenient visits to numerous military and government installations, educational institutions, and cultural and recreational facilities.

 

A full spectrum of activities is designed to offer students a variety of rewarding experiences.  The Guest Speaker and Senior Fellows Programs furnish instruction not available through other forums.  As is the policy throughout the university, guest lecturers are encouraged to present their views in an environment of academic freedom and responsible intellectual inquiry.  Students have the opportunity for closer contact with the visitors through question-and-answer periods and luncheons.

 

Students can choose to work out in a modern, fully equipped fitness center.  A year-round program of athletic activities is conducted for students, staff, faculty, and families.  The college organizes leagues made up of seminar teams for volleyball and softball, plus tournaments for individual sports such as tennis and golf.  JFSC also sponsors athletic awards programs to recognize excellence in golf, softball, and volleyball.

 

The college academic program focuses on joint and multinational operations.  The college curriculum is structured to develop understanding and appreciation of the various national, agency, and Service interests and concerns that bear on the common defense.  The curriculum is designed to promote a spirit of cooperation and understanding that is critical to any joint or multinational endeavor.  The college accomplishes its mission by offering four fields of study organized in three separate schools:

 

The Joint and Combined Staff Officer School (JCSOS) prepares selected mid-career officers for joint and multinational staff duty.  The school conducts Phase II of the intermediate-level Program for Joint Education.

 

The Joint and Combined Warfighting School (JCWS) prepares selected senior officers for joint and multinational staff duty.  The school conducts Phase II of the senior-level Program for Joint Education.

 

The Joint Command, Control, and Information Warfare School (JCIWS) prepares selected officers and DOD civilians for joint and multinational duties in the fields of Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence; and Information Warfare.  The school consists of the Joint Information Warfare (IW) Staff and Operations Course (JIWSOC), the Joint Information Warfare Orientation Course (JIWOC), the Joint Information Operations Planning Course (JIOPC), and the Joint Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) Staff and Operations Course (JC4ISOC).

JFSC Organization

 

 

Curriculum

 

The basic curriculum serves as Phase II of a staff officer’s education.  The Joint and Combined Staff Officer School and the Joint and Combined Warfighting School administer this curriculum.  Phase I of the overall staff officer education is conducted at the individual Service schools and colleges.

 

The Joint Command, Control, and Information Warfare School offers specialized courses in information operations/warfare and C4I management and operations

 

 

Student in-processing at JFSC, Norfolk,VA

 

 

Joint and Combined Staff Officer School

 

Program Summary

 

The JCSOS curriculum program focuses at the combatant command and a three-star contingency joint task force level.  Fifteen academic objectives, distilled from specified education requirements directed by Congress, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the CINCs, frame the 330-hour resident program.  The courseware requires students to conduct theater-level and campaign planning, command and control system integration and their interfaces with national systems, and a detailed analysis of the DOD budget, Chairman’s readiness, Joint Strategic Planning, and Joint Operation Planning and Execution Systems.  A Focus Studies program enables students to select up to two electives of interest on joint topics such as Joint Targeting, Contemporary Foreign Policy Issues, China and Pacific Security, Recent Cases in Crisis Action Planning, Civil-Military Relations, Information Superiority Studies, Lessons in Operational Warfighting, and regional studies for all geographic CINCs.  The faculty is balanced across all the Services and specialty skills, and includes State Department foreign service officers.

 

Program Content

 

Strategy.  Students begin their studies at the strategic level, with an introductory exercise requiring preliminary planning for a noncombatant evacuation operation within their area of responsibility.  This complex mission highlights the dominant role of diplomacy and the challenges of integrating the elements of national power in a rapidly escalating contingency operation.  Students “get their hands dirty” learning the joint operation planning process and its products while informing the faculty of the extent of the joint, multinational, and interagency experience within their seminar’s joint planning group (JPG) team.  Over the course of these first lessons, the students analyze national security decision-making from the politico-military environment at the Washington level down to the separate country agenda environment at the CINC level.  Historical case studies highlight linkages between national strategy and operational-level missions, coalition building, resource prioritization, and operational-level command and control and force design.

 

Campaigning.  With a sound strategic-level foundation, student focus shifts to operational art and campaigning.  In this portion of the course students learn the processes and tools that the joint planner uses to support the force commander.  Lessons on operational art and historical case studies in North Africa serve to reinforce certain timeless principles of war and the complexity of integrated multi-Service and multinational planning, and establish a sound foundation to expand the application for the tenets of operational art.  The intricacies of command and control, as well as the politico-military and capability-matching challenges of multinational operations, and humanitarian assistance and foreign disaster relief activities provide deeper appreciation for the processes and products challenging joint staff planners.  Students then experience the challenge of current contingency operations through an exercise that uses numerous international military officers and representatives of other nongovernmental, private volunteer, and regional organizations.  This becomes a very realistic scenario for the conduct of a humanitarian assistance operation exercise responding to a natural disaster.  The ideas and concepts of joint doctrine are brought to life through a variety of these exercise opportunities.  At the end of this course block, students demonstrate an understanding of a complete Theater Strategy and the various aspects of security cooperation for their AOR—using all current national objectives, policies, priorities, and resource allocations.

 

Deliberate Planning.  This foundation provides essential background that students require to write a deliberate plan specified in a recently released Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP).  Serving as the CINC staff, they work through the entire planning process, including the significant planning considerations of the deployment challenge.  They develop a time-phased force and deployment database to identify the movement and sustainment requirements for their plan, with considerations as appropriate for multinational force providers.  Then, using the current Global Command and Control System (GCCS), they apply the staff planning and decision support tools expected of them if assigned to a CINC headquarters.

 

Crisis Action Planning.  Historical case studies provide the framework to investigate in detail one of the most challenging portions of the Joint Operation Planning and Execution System—Crisis Action Planning (CAP).  Through CAP, the seminar JPGs apply insights gained through deliberate planning, video-teleconference with CINC Political Advisers, ambassadors, and other key actors in their AOR, and craft the military operational-level plan that synchronizes the application of national resources to complex missions in their AOR.  Initially, they plan at the CINC level; then, using their CINC-level planning products, they develop the detailed JTF-level plan to deploy, employ, transition, and redeploy their multinational forces. 

 

Assessments.  Assessments are central to the academic program; students must achieve proficiency on each of the fifteen academic objectives that define the JPME Phase II program at JFSC.  Assessments exploit a number of validated tools:  a precourse assessment to determine proficiency on selected objectives, written examinations, research papers, formal briefings, classroom participation, and performance while serving in a variety of JPG positions during wargaming opportunities.

 

The JCSOS program employs graduate-level adult learning practices.  Guest speakers, evening discussions, individual reading time, and seminar-centered discussions are designed to challenge and expand student proficiency in joint, multinational, and interagency operations.  Concurrently, the school environment uniquely advances the central challenge of modern complex missions—a joint-multinational-interagency attitude and perspective in problem solving.

 

Joint and Combined War fighting School

 

Program Summary

 

JFSC's JCWS conducts Professional Joint Education Phase II at the senior level for officers expected to be nominated for joint duty assignments (JDAs).  The Officer Professional Military Education Policy defines a JDA as "an assignment to a designated position in a multinational command or activity or a multi-Service command or activity that is involved in the integrated employment or support of the land, sea, and air forces of at least two of the three Military Departments. . . ."  The school educates students on the integrated strategic deployment, employment, and sustainment of joint forces.  This is accomplished through practical exercises, case studies, and war games in a joint seminar environment.  This program is, relatively speaking, a narrowly defined curriculum emphasizing the application of joint planning, doctrine, procedures, and perspectives.  It is designed to be taught within the broader context of national security now found in the core curriculum of Service war colleges.  The primary focus of the program is on joint warfighting and planning considerations at the combatant command level.  The JFSC Phase II program complements and builds on Phase I learning areas for PJE taught at the Service war colleges (senior-level).  Intense faculty-student interaction in the fully joint environment of the JFSC campus cements professional joint attitudes and perspectives essential to future successful joint operations.

 

Program Content

 

The following five courses make up the Phase II senior-level curriculum:

 

Administration (2S00) allots time to orient students to college programs, JFSC policies, administrative procedures, locations of key facilities, and various activities available to them while attending the college.

 

Strategic Framework (2S10) is initiated with a preliminary joint planning exercise in which students are introduced to the exercise and role-play a crisis action team (CAT) at the combatant command level.  This application culminates in a senior officer review (usually a former CINC) during which the students brief and defend their recommendations and decisions.  This is followed by an after-action review and critique.  The exercise simulates the time-constrained decision-making that places a premium on rapidly achieving group cohesion, coordination, and division of labor.  Students deal with uncertainty and ambiguity as they recommend options and objectives, evaluate conflicting information and priorities, allocate resources, and develop courses of action.  The course also allows the students to look at the National Command Authorities' (NCA’s) decision-making process from the CINC's point of view.  Every effort is made not to repeat what students have learned during their Phase I education.  The school attempts to reinforce the fact that working in the interagency process is very difficult, and the process is one the CINC can influence only with great difficulty.  The process is examined both inside the Washington, D.C., area, at the deputies level, and outside Washington, D.C., in the country-team environment.  The method used is a mixture of historical analyses of cases (Mayaguez, URGENT FURY, etc.) demonstrating difficulties of the NCA decision-making process, an exercise where students prepare a strategic estimate and a theater strategy, and an interagency counterterrorist war game.  During the war game, the students interact with actual members of the DOS, FBI, CIA, and DIA to develop courses of action.  The course is pulled together by the field trip that follows, during which students visit the NSC, Joint Staff, and various government agencies in the Washington, D.C., area.

 

Resource Synchronization (2S20) examines the unique capabilities each Service "brings to the fight" in terms of functions as well as other elements of national power the CINC may have at his disposal.  Areas examined are intelligence, joint targeting, fires, logistics, C4, special operations, protection, mobility, space, and IO.  Students are assigned to brief Service capabilities in fires, logistics, and protection; the faculty, guest speakers and panels of specialty experts teach the rest.  This course gives students a better understanding of various resources available to the CINC as well as system capabilities and limitations and helps them prepare to integrate systems for the campaign planning exercise.  This course is capped with a field trip to all the CINC headquarters in the United States and augmented by VTC visits to EUCOM and PACOM.

 

Operation Planning (2S30) gives the students a quick review of the deliberate planning process, and then moves into an examination of planning considerations for operations other than war (OOTW).  The method used includes studying the different types of operations that fall under the OOTW umbrella, reviewing the established or evolving joint doctrine, deriving lessons learned, and then applying those lessons to an actual operation or a fabricated operational vignette.  The course uses historical cases, such as Operation JUST CAUSE and the seizure of the Achille Lauro, EASTERN EXIT, RESTORE HOPE and PROVIDE COMFORT, taught by faculty and Senior Fellows.  In addition to the historical cases, the students role-play in a humanitarian exercise with peace operations overtones and actually interact and conduct planning with guest nongovernmental and private volunteer organization (NGO/PVO) personnel.  Students also gain an understanding of military missions in counterdrug and domestic-civilian operations.  At the conclusion of the course, the students should have a thorough understanding of the planning considerations required for OOTW.

 

Joint Applications (2S40) brings to life operational-level decision making through simulations and war games.  JCWS uses eight joint applications.  The initial application (PURPLE CHALLENGE) is a crisis action exercise in which students function as members of a CINC CAT.  The exercise gives the students the opportunity to apply joint doctrine and crisis action principles and procedures in accomplishing a time-sensitive deployment of U.S. military forces into a Middle Eastern country.  Following the Commander’s Estimate briefing to a Senior Fellow, a thorough after-action review is conducted as well as a discussion of conflict termination.  The following week another application (PURPLE VISION) is introduced and students role-play a CINC staff in review of a theater strategy for the fictitious USAFCOM; the strategic estimate and theater strategy are revised and briefed to two Senior Fellows, one a senior military officer and the other a former ambassador.  Following a half day of presentations from all components of Special Operations Forces, the students spend the second half of a day in a scenario-assisted exercise (PURPLE FIRE) designed to give them, working hand-in-hand with subject matter experts from SOCOM, an opportunity to apply and exercise operational-level decision-making skills in the planning and execution of joint special operations.  Following a panel discussion with interagency organization counterterrorism experts from the DOS, DIA, CIA, and FBI, students conduct a tabletop message-driven crisis action planning exercise (PURPLE HAZE) in which they role-play members of a contingency planning group and are assisted by their interagency community experts with regard to operation plans and appropriate courses of action.  Another three-hour faculty-led “brainstorming” exercise (PURPLE BUG) explores the operational imperatives, consequences, and dilemmas of the employment of chemical (CW) and biological weapons (BW).  The students not only gain an appreciation for the destructive capabilities and limitations of these weapons of mass destruction, but also confront the various strategic challenges faced by decision-makers.  As a role-playing member of an adversary special weapons cell, the student plans for the use of CW/BW against certain African nation and U.S. forces in the fictitious AFCOM AOR.  Following briefings from the Joint Command, Control, and Information Warfare School and participating guests on another interagency panel, another short application exercise (PURPLE BYTE) is conducted in which students apply their knowledge in developing an Information Operations CONPLAN.  Several NGO/PVO representatives play key roles in a politico-military simulation exercise (PURPLE HOPE) of a humanitarian assistance/disaster relief operation.  Each seminar is organized as a coalition task force (CTF) staff participating with a multinational force along with representatives from the U.S. Embassy, USAID (OFDA), and an NGO/PVO (InterAction).  Students are required to develop a concept of operations for conducting humanitarian assistance/disaster relief for an African nation after a catastrophic volcanic eruption has devastated the country.  The final campaign planning exercise (PURPLE RELIANCE) focuses on planning for a joint campaign by a unified command conducting full-dimensional operations.  Previous Professional Joint Education (PJE) instruction, and specifically work done on theater strategy in Course 2S10, gives the students the requisite knowledge, experience, and skills to plan and execute a campaign plan.  They apply these abilities during the campaign planning and war game.  The exercise scenario gives additional historical background, develops both the friendly and enemy politico-military situation, and dictates, through the use of task-oriented requirements, a transition from deliberate planning procedures to time-sensitive, crisis action procedures.  Each seminar, role-playing as a fictitious combatant command (USAFCOM) and a joint task force (JTF), updates the strategic estimate and theater strategy from 2S10, evaluates existing plans, and produces a CINC’s Assessment, Commander’s Estimate, theater campaign plan, and combatant command OPORD for the campaign. 

 

This area of study culminates the Joint and Combined Warfighting School (JCWS).  It ties together previous instruction by focusing on joint warfare skills in the context of a theater campaign.  It offers students valuable experience in applying their skills in campaign planning.  They plan for the full integration of land, air, sea, and special operations as well as information operations and space forces throughout deployment, employment, sustainment, and redeployment operations in a time-constrained environment.  They begin by evaluating all factors bearing on the problem to reach an assessment.  They review current military strategy, both national and regional.  They evaluate military objectives, apply operational concepts for campaign planning, and develop joint courses of action to accomplish the military objectives.  The students work within the crisis action framework to develop a theater campaign plan and OPORD.  The effectiveness of the campaign plan is assessed during three war games. 

 

Joint Critical Analysis (2S50) The goal of JCWS is to polish critical thinking in officers destined for CINC headquarters.  Four distinct lessons in the course help meet this challenge.  The Joint Critical Analysis (JCA) is a collaborative effort from student writing teams jointly assembled to produce a 25-page analysis of their designated campaign or a particular unresolved joint issue.  The JCA gives the students an opportunity to better understand current joint doctrine, share their analyses with each other, and challenge/defend their positions with seminar presentations of their research.  The Focus Studies program enables students to select up to two electives of interest on joint topics such as Joint Targeting, Contemporary Foreign Policy Issues, China and Pacific Security, Recent Cases in Crisis Action Planning, Civil-Military Relations, Information Superiority Studies, Lessons in Operational Warfighting, and regional studies for all geographic CINCs.  A field trip/staff ride to Yorktown Battlefield National Park is used as a summation of several facets of operational art that have been analyzed throughout the course.  The Senior Fellow panel is generally the final lesson in the curriculum and brings students together with selected high-ranking, highly experienced Senior Fellows for some final perspectives, ideas, and questions that were either not covered or not fully discussed during the previous 11 weeks of the course.

 

Joint Command, Control, and Information Warfare School (JCIWS)

 

The Joint Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence Staff and Operations Course (JC4ISOC).  This four-week resident course acquaints nontechnically oriented personnel in military grades W-1 to 0-6 and equivalent-level civilians being assigned to positions associated with joint operations within the defense establishment with existing C4I systems and procedures for command, management, and operations.  As the C4I environment is diverse and broad in scope, no attempt is made to train students to perform a specific C4I job or task.  Instead, the course is designed to acquaint personnel with the wide range of C4I operations that extend through the national, theater, and tactical levels of command.  Emphasis is placed on the procedures associated with current C4I systems used to support the National Command Authorities and the major commanders who control U.S. military forces.  This course supports the college objective by offering a broad understanding of the joint C4I environment to selected military officers and DOD civilian personnel.

 

The presentations are primarily informal lectures with discussion and question-and-answer sessions.  The C4I course faculty is augmented by instructors of the Joint and Combined Staff Officer School, the Joint Information Warfare Division, and guests from within the C4I community who have specific knowledge and expertise.  The curriculum ties together national, strategic, theater, and tactical C4I.  The course includes a four-day trip to C4I facilities within the Washington, D.C., area that serves to reinforce classroom instruction and also gives the students a real-life picture of key C4I operations.  There are several field trips to local area C4I facilities.  JC4ISOC is taught seven times a year at the Top Secret/SCI level.  The Joint Staff J-6 is the course sponsor.

 

The Joint Information Warfare Staff and Operations Course (JIWSOC).  This two-week resident course prepares students in military grades WO-1 to 0-5 and equivalent-level civilians for duty as joint or multinational information warfare (IW) staff officers or Service IW officers operating in a joint environment.  The course acquaints students with the IW concepts employed at the unified command and joint task force levels of command.  The curriculum covers the broad spectrum of IW with emphasis on terminology, doctrine, tactics, equipment, and organizations that support the IW strategy.

 

The instruction consists of informal lectures with discussions and practical application.  The IW Division of the Joint Command, Control, and Information Warfare School is augmented by guest lecturers actively involved in IW activities.  The course culminates with the students applying IW strategy to a real-world scenario exercise.  JIWSOC is offered eight times a year at the Top Secret/SCI level.  The Joint Staff J-39 is the course sponsor.

 

The Joint Information Operations Planning Course (JIOPC).  This one-week resident course offers students advanced information and techniques to conduct IO deliberate planning.  An indepth follow-on to the JIWSOC, it presents an IO-specific planning process and software tool that augments standard JOPES planning.  Most of the course consists of a practical exercise in which students produce elements of a final plan for a hypothetical warfighting CINC.  The course is taught at the Secret level, though Top Secret/SCI discussions occur in support of the course material.

 

Other Courses Offered by the College

 

Joint Planning Orientation Course (JPOC).  The JPOC is a three-day class designed to introduce attendees to the joint planning process that in peacetime is called deliberate planning, and in emergencies or crises, time-sensitive planning.  Students are acquainted with the process of developing a contingency plan based on a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) task assignment, including automatic data processing (ADP) support available, and the process used by the Joint Planning and Execution Community (JPEC) to develop timely recommendations to aid the NCA in making decisions involving U.S. military forces.  The course includes a discussion of major programs and initiatives to correct existing deficiencies and improve the joint planning and execution process.

 

Joint Transition Course (JTC).  This five-day course is designed to give basic knowledge of joint planning procedures and terminology to U.S. and international students entering the Joint and Combined Staff Officer School Phase II PJME without the benefit of Phase I.

 

Flag and General Officer Seminar on Joint Planning (FGOS).  This two-and-a-half-hour seminar is designed to familiarize flag and general officers with the joint planning process in accordance with the Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES) and recent and proposed changes to the process.  Seminar participants are introduced to the historical development of JOPES and its associated automated support.  The interrelationship between JOPES and the Joint Strategic Planning System (JSPS) and the Planning, Programming, and Budget System (PPBS) is identified.  Seminar participants discuss plan development, including the construction of Time-Phased Force and Deployment Data (TPFDD) in both peacetime and crisis situations, the link between deliberate and crisis planning, and actions to improve joint planning and execution.  Throughout the seminar, capabilities and limitations of current planning and execution systems are highlighted.

 

Joint Information Warfare Orientation Course.  This is a three-day introductory course to acquaint U.S. personnel with the fundamentals of joint IO strategy.  The course is presented at the request of unified commanders at their home installations.  Emphasis is placed on terminology, doctrine and tactics, equipment, and organizations that support joint IO.  Requests for allied attendance are considered case by case by the Joint Staff.  The course has application for all individuals whose daily duties entail direct or indirect support to Information Operations or Information Warfare.  A five-day version of this course for allied officers is presented annually in June at JFSC.

 

Faculty

 

EDWARD L. LaFOUNTAINE, Major General, USAF

Commandant

B.S., United States Air Force Academy;

M.A., Chapman College; Air Command and Staff College;

National War College

 

TIMOTHY ADAMS, Commander, USN

JCIWS Faculty

B.S., U.S. Naval Academy;

M.S., New School University

 

EHSAN M. AHRARI, Professor, JCWS Faculty

BA., M.A., Eastern Illinois University;

Ph.D., Southern Illinois University

 

ROBERT M. ANTIS, Lieutenant Colonel, USA (Ret.)

JCSOS Curriculum Coordinator

B.A., Michigan State University;

M.A., Indiana University; Army Command and General Staff College;

Armed Forces Staff College

 

MICHAEL J. ARINELLO, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCSOS Faculty

M.B.A, Troy State University

 

Christopher R. Barbour, Colonel, USA

Distance Learning Division Faculty

B.S., Northeastern University;

M.S.S., Army War College

 

LAWRENCE L. BRADY, Lieutenant Colonel, USMC (Ret.)

JCSOS Faculty

B.A., Georgia Southern University;

M.A., Webster University; M.A.Ed., Virginia Wesleyan College;

U.S. Naval War College

 

GARY A. BRAND, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University;

M.B.A., Golden Gate University;

Air Command and Staff College; Air War College

 

GEORGE P. BROWN, Colonel, USA (Ret.)

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., Central Michigan University;

M.A., University of Southern California;

M.A., Troy State University; Army Command and Staff College

 

KATHERINE BRYANT, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCIWS Faculty

M.S., St. Cloud State University;

Army Command and Staff College

 

OLIVER L. BRYANT, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

JCIWS Faculty

B.B.A., University of Miami;

M.S., Central Michigan University;

Air Command and Staff College; Air War College

 

JAMES P. BUTLER, Captain, USN

Dean, JCWS

B.S., U.S. Naval Academy; M.S., Naval Postgraduate School;

M.A., Naval War College; M.S., Industrial College of the Armed Forces;

College of Naval Warfare; Joint Forces Staff College

 

RANDY L. BLISS, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

Chief, Educational Assessment Division, DAA

B.S.E., University of Michigan; M.S.A., Georgia College;

M.S.E. Old Dominion University

 

GAETON A. CAFIERO, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

JCSOS Faculty

B.A., Baruch College; M.B.A, Golden Gate University;

Air Command and Staff College; Marine Corps Command and Staff College;

Armed Forces Staff College

 

JOHN M. CALVERT, Colonel, USAF

Dean, JCSOS

B.S., Southeast Missouri State University; M.S., University of Arkansas;

Air Command Staff College; Armed Forces Staff College;

U.S. Marine Corps War College

 

ANTONIO CARPENTER, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., Millersville State University

 

GARY R. CHIAVEROTTI, Captain, USN

JCWS Faculty

B.S., Carroll College; M.P.A., Pennsylvania State University;

Army War College; Joint Forces Staff College

 

DARRELL T. CONNELLY, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCSOS Faculty

B.A., David Lipscomb University

 

PATRICIA K. COOMBER, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

JCSOS Faculty

M.A., Webster University;

M.S., University of Colorado;

Ph.D., University of Texas

 

DAVID A. CORWIN, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

JCSOS Faculty

B.A.C., The Citadel; M.B.A., University of Montana;

Air Command and Staff College;

Marine Corps Command and Staff College;

Air War College

 

RICHARD M. CROWELL, Commander, USN

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., Massachusetts Maritime Academy;

M.A., Naval War College

 

JOHN M. DAVEY, Major General, USAF (Ret.), Professor, JCWS Faculty

B.S., U.S. Air Force Academy; M.S., University of Rochester;

Naval War College, College of Naval Warfare

 

WILLIAM J. DAVIS, Colonel, USA

JCWS Faculty

B.S., Millersville State University;

M.S., Salve Regina University;

Armed Forces Staff College

 

WILLIAM J. DAVIS, JR., Commander, USN

JCSOS Faculty

B.A., Harvard University;

M.M.S., U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College;

Armed Forces Staff College

 

SHERYL DEBNAM, Colonel, USAF

JCWS Faculty

B.S., Friends University;

M.S., Webster University;

Air Command and Staff College;

Air War College

 

D. PURNELL DELLY, U.S. Department of State

JCSOS Faculty

B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Naval War College;

M.A., University of Chicago; J.D., College of William and Mary;

Armed Forces Staff College

 

KEITH D. DICKSON

JCSOS Faculty

B.A., Virginia Military Institute; M.A., University of Richmond;

Ph.D., University of Virginia; Armed Forces Staff College

 

JAMES P. EASTERBROOKS, Commander, USN

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., Daniel Webster College

 

KARL JOHN ERICKSON, Lieutenant Colonel, USA (Ret.)

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., University of Wisconsin;

M.A.I.R., Boston University

 

BONNIE B. FAUTUA, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCSOS Faculty

B.A., St. Lawrence University;

M.A., Duke University;

Army Command and Staff College

 

DAVID E. FEIGEL, Lieutenant Colonel, USMC (Ret.)

Chief, War Game, Modeling, and Simulation Division, DOIT

B.A.Ed., Northeastern Oklahoma State University;

M.S.Ed., University of Southern California;

Amphibious Warfare School

 

LAWRENCE C. FOWLER, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JSCOS Faculty

B.S., University of Montana;

M.B.A., Troy State University;

Army Command and Staff College

 

BOYD D. GAINES, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCIWS Faculty

B.A., Virginia Military Institute

 

REBECCA P. GARDNER, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

Chief, Plans and Policy Division, DAA

B.A., East Carolina University;

M.A., Webster University; Air Command and Staff College;

Armed Forces Staff College

 

WILLIAM P. GERHARDT, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCSOS Faculty

M.S., Troy State University;

Army Command and General Staff College;

Armed Forces Staff College

 

MARTHA C. GILLETTE, Captain, USN

Executive Officer, Naval Administrative Command

B.A., University of Minnesota;

M.S., Old Dominion University

 

MARK R. GOODELL, Major, USAF

JCIWS Faculty

B.S., Brigham Young University;

M.S., Air Force Institute of Technology

 

H. D. (DAN) GOODMAN, Lieutenant Colonel, USA (Ret), Associate Professor

Chief, Faculty and Staff Development, DAA

B.A., University of Wisconsin;

M.A., St. Mary’s University San Antonio;

U.S. Army Command and General Staff College;

Armed Forces Staff College

 

THOMAS M. GROSS, Colonel, USA

JCWS Faculty

B.S., U.S. Military Academy; M.S., Central Michigan University

 

JANE P.K. HAMMOND, Commander, USN (Ret.)

JCSOS Faculty

B.A., Mary Washington College; M.Ed., Providence College;

M.A., Salve Regina University; M.A., Naval War College;

Naval Command and Staff College; Armed Forces Staff College

 

PATRICK H. HANNUM, Lieutenant Colonel, USMC

JCSOS Faculty

M.M.A.S., U.S. Army CGSC;

Army Command and Staff College

 

GEORGE CHESLEY HARRIS, Colonel, USA (Ret.)

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., U.S. Military Academy;

M.S., Naval Postgraduate School

 

KIM D. HAWTHORNE, Major, USAF

JCIWS Faculty

B.S., U.S. Air Force Academy;

M.A., Liberty University

 

JEFFERY W. HAYMAN, USA

Chief, Network Integration Division, DOIT

B.A., Western Maryland College;

M.S., Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

 

GRETCHEN S. HERBERT, Commander, USN

JCIWS Faculty

B.S., University of Rochester; M.S. Naval Postgraduate School;

M.S., Marine Corps Command and Staff College;

Armed Forces Staff College

 

STEVEN J. HERTIG, Lieutenant Colonel, USMC

JCSOS Faculty

M.S., Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture;

Marine Corps Command and Staff College

 

KEVIN T. HOLDEN, Commander, USN

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., Villanova University; M.A., U.S. Naval War College;

Navy Command and Staff College; Navy War College;

Armed Forces Staff College

 

DAVID J. JARABEK, Captain, USN

Commanding Officer, Naval Administrative Command

B.S., U.S. Naval Academy;

M.S., Naval Postgraduate School;

U.S. Army War College

 

THOMAS R. JUCKS, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCSOS Faculty

B.A., Eastern Kentucky University;

 

FREDERICK R. KIENLE, Colonel, USA

JCWS Faculty

B.A., St. John’s University;

M.A., Seton Hall University;

U.S. Army Command and Staff College;

U.S. Army War College

 

RICHARD J. KILROY, Major, USA

JCIWS Faculty

B.S., Santa Clara University;

M.A., University of Virginia;

Ph.D., University of Virginia

 

JOHN F. KLEMENC, Commander, USN

JCSOS Faculty

B.A., Georgia Institute of Technology;

Army Command and Staff College

 

ROBERT L. LONG, Commander, USN

Chief, Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence Division

B.S., University of Idaho; M.A., Naval War College

 

JOHN C. LOOMIS, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., U.S. Military Academy;

Army Command and Staff College

 

STEPHEN A. MASSIE, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

JCSOS Faculty

M.S., Webster University; Air Command and Staff College;

Air War College; Armed Forces Staff College

 

LINDA B. MCCLUNEY

Dean of Academic Affairs

B.S., Norfolk State University;

M.S., Old Dominion University;

Ph.D., Old Dominion University

 

GARY L. MCCORKINDALE, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., U.S. Military Academy;

M.A., Naval Postgraduate School

 

JAMES W. MCKELLAR, Lieutenant Colonel, USMC

JCSOS Faculty

M.M.S., Marine Corps Command and Staff College;

M.B.A., Keller Graduate School of Management

 

STEPHEN W. MCKINSTER, Commander, USN

JCSOS Faculty

B.S.E., University of Michigan;

M.A., Naval War College;

Navy Command and Staff College

 

PAUL MELSHEN, Colonel, USMCR

Associate Professor, JCSOS Faculty

B.A., Wabash College; M.A., University of Chicago;

M.S., Salve Regina College; M.Phil., Ph.D. Cambridge University;

NATO Defense College; Marine Corps Command Staff College;

Naval War College, College of Naval Command and Staff

 

PAUL C. MERRITT, Major, USMC

JCIWS Faculty

B.A., North Carolina State University;

M.A., Naval War College

 

GERALD L. MITCHELL, Lieutenant Colonel, USA (Ret.)

Associate Professor, JCSOS Faculty

B.S., Indiana University; M.S., University of North Carolina;

Armed Forces Staff College; Air Command and Staff College

 

WILLIAM R. MITCHELL, Lieutenant Colonel, USMC

JCIWS Faculty

B.S., St. Lawrence University;

M.A., Naval War College

 

DAWN M. MOLL, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., Florida State University;

M.S., Golden Gate University;

Air Command and Staff College;

Air War College

 

DREW K. MULLIN, Commander, USN

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., Arizona State University; M.A., Webster University;

M.S., Naval Postgraduate School; M.A., Air War College

 

VARDELL E. NESMITH, JR., Colonel, USA (Ret.),

Professor, JCSOS Faculty

B.S., U.S. Military Academy; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University;

Army War College; M.M.A.S., Army Command and General Staff College;

New Zealand Army’s Grade II Staff Course

 

DEBRA J. NICELY, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

Chief, Information Management Division, DOIT

B.S., Troy State University;

M.S., Air Force Institute of Technology;

Air Command and Staff College; Air War College

 

J. GAIL NICULA, Ph.D.

Chief, Library Division, DAA

B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., University of Michigan;

M.S., Old Dominion University; Ph.D., Old Dominion University

 

LAWRENCE E. OLSEN, Commander, USN

Distance Learning Division Faculty

B.S., U.S. Naval Academy;

Navy Command and Staff College;

Naval War College; Armed Forces Staff College

 

 

ROGER J. OLTMAN, Lieutenant Colonel, USMC

JCWS Faculty

B.S., Clarion State College;

Marine Corps Command Staff College;

Air War College

 

THOMAS M. O’SULLIVAN, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCSOS Faculty

B.A., Virginia Military Institute;

M.M.A.S., Army Command and General Staff College;

Armed Forces Staff College

 

GARY PAUL PARSON, Commander, USN

JCSOS Faculty

B.A., Indiana University;

M.A., Naval Postgraduate School

 

JAMES K. PERNINI, Captain, USN (Ret.)

Associate Professor, JCSOS Faculty

B.S., Northwestern University;

M.S., Troy State University; M.A., Salve Regina College;

College of Naval Warfare; Air Command and Staff College

 

JAMES R. PETERSON, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCSOS Faculty

B.A., Southern University;

Army Command and Staff College;

Armed Forces Staff College

 

KEITH WARNER PHILLIPS, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., College of Charleston;

M.A., Central Michigan University

 

KENNETH P. PISEL, Commander, USN (Ret.)

Chief, Distance Learning Division, DOIT

B.S., U.S. Naval Academy;

M.A., Central Michigan University;

Ph.D., Old Dominion University

 

BRIDGET A. POWELL, Major, USAFR

Distance Learning Division Faculty

B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;

M.A., California State University at San Bernardino;

Joint Forces Staff College

 

BRUCE A. REED, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

JCSOS Faculty

M.Ed., Northern Montana College;

Air Command and Staff College;

Air War College

 

STEPHEN H. RIES, Captain, USN (Ret.)

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., U.S. Naval Academy;

M.A., Ed. D., George Washington University;

Armed Forces Staff College

 

NEIL S. RISH, JR., Commander, USN

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., Ball State University; M.A., Salve Regina University;

M.A., College of Command and Staff; Naval War College

 

SUE F. ROBERTSON-TRUXAL, Commander, USN

JCSOS Faculty

B.A., M.A., New Mexico State University;

M.A., National War College

 

C. STANLEY ROMES, Colonel, USAF (Ret.)

Chief of Staff

B.S., M.S., Florida State University; Air War College;

Armed Forces Staff College; Air Command and Staff College

 

VICTOR M. SALAZAR, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCSOS Faculty

A.A., Cochise College; B.A., Coker College;

Naval Postgraduate School, Armed Forces Staff College

 

WALTER C. SPEARMAN, Captain, USN

Dean, JCIWS

B.S., University of South Carolina;

M.A., Central Michigan University;

M.A., College of Naval Warfare

 

DAVID E. STARK, Lieutenant Colonel (P), USA

Distance Learning Division Faculty

A.S., B.S., State University of New York;

M.S., National Louis University;

Joint Forces Staff College

 

DOUGLAS M. SUTTON, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCSOS Faculty

B.A., University of Florida

 

DAVID L. THOMAS, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., University of Alabama

 

DANE S. TKACS, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., Trenton State College;

U.S. Army Command and General Staff College;

M.A., University of Phoenix

 

JAMES J. TOONE, Captain, USN (Ret.)

Dean, Directorate of Information Technology

B.B.A., Hofstra University; M.A., Naval War College;

M.S., Salve Regina College; College of Naval Warfare;

Armed Forces Staff College

 

MARK B. TREADWELL, Commander, USN

JCIWS Faculty

B.S., University of Notre Dame;

Armed Forces Staff College; Army War College

 

FRANK R. VENTURA, Major, USA

Chief, Personnel and Administration Division, DAA

B.A., Inter American University of Puerto Rico

 

SHIRLEY A. WALLACE, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

JCSOS Faculty

M.P.S., Cornell University

 

PETER G. WILLIAMS, Lieutenant Colonel, USA

JCSOS Faculty

B.S., West Point;

B.A., Master of International Relations Webster University;

M.B.A., Duke University; Armed Forces Staff College

 

DAVID B. WINTERFORD, Associate Professor, JCSOS Faculty

B.A., University of Alberta;

M.A., Ph.D., University of British Columbia

 

DAVID L. WOLFE, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

JCIWS Faculty

B.S., Southern Illinois University;

M.S., State University of New York

 

JAMES K. YORGEN, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

Chief, Joint Planning Orientation Division

B.A., Miami University;

M.A., Golden Gate University

 

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