Amistad: Defense Planning and Force Transformation Course
Note: This course is only available to students of the Inter-American Defense College. Applications from the general public are not accepted.
» Overview
This one-week course is designed to help participants expand their knowledge in defense planning processes designed to produce future defense alternatives. The course operates at theoretical and applied levels. It introduces students to the advanced concepts and analytical tools for designing the defense establishment of the 21st century with the focus on adaptation, modernization, and transformation of defense capabilities.
» Goals
1) To understand, select and effectively use strategies for the design and formulation of defense and security policy.
2) To apply the concepts of transformation to a variety of inter-American defense and security topics.



