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School of Advanced Warfighting: The School of Advanced Warfighting provides a follow-on, graduate-level professional military education for selected field grade officers who have completed the Marine Corps or sister service command and staff college course. The course develops complex problem solving and decision making skills for the ...
On 1 August 1990, the 29th Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Alfred M. Gray, Jr., instituted the Art of War Studies program under the Marine Corps Command and Staff College. [3] General Gray's vision was to establish a "world-class educational institution for the study of war and the profession of arms."
The School of Advanced Warfighting (SAW) can trace its roots back to the “maneuver warfare movement,” the period leading up to and including General Alfred M. Gray Jr's tenure as the 29th Commandant, which reached its zenith with the publishing of Fleet Marine Force Manual 1 Warfighting in 1989. [2]
McKenzie holds a master's degree in history from the National Defense University and has served as a Senior Military Fellow at the school's Institute for National Strategic Studies. He is an Honors Graduate of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the School of Advanced Warfighting .
Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS) College of International Security Affairs; Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy (The Eisenhower School), formerly the Industrial College of the Armed Forces; College of Information and Cyberspace (formerly Information Resources Management College or "iCollege")
Beginning in 2002, the United States Central Command requested planners from SAMS and its sister schools, [30] the United States Air Force's School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), which was designed to be similar to SAMS, [31] and the United States Marine Corps's School of Advanced Warfighting (SAW). [30]
For example, an officer may be sent to various staff courses: as a captain they may be sent to a single service command and staff school to prepare for company command and equivalent staff posts; as a major to a single or joint service college to prepare for battalion command and equivalent staff posts; and as a colonel or brigadier to a higher ...