In 2002, 56 years after the establishment of the National War College and Armed Forces Staff College and 16 years following the enactment of the Goldwater-Nichols Act, General Richard Myers, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, issued a directive to the Joint Staff: “[We must] expand and improve JPME to develop trust amongst the services, ensure service integration, develop transformational leaders, capable of working with other agencies and services, incorporate observations from recent operations, and educate and train the right person for the right task at the right time.”
Two years later, in 2004, the CJCS established the Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS) as a Top-Level School (TLS) / Senior Service College (SSC) with a curriculum mirroring the operational warfighting character of the prized Service Advanced Warfighting Schools (AWS) like SAMS, SAW, SAASS, and NOPC, but with a distinctively Joint focus.
Today, after 20 years of Joint Professional Military Education excellence in Joint Warfighting, our mission remains to “prepare U.S. and international military officers and U.S. Government civilians to serve in strategic leadership positions and lead the development of theater strategies, campaigns, and operations for the employment of joint forces in support of strategic objectives and policy goals.“
JAWS exists to produce the graduates Combatant Commanders require:
Historically-Informed, Strategically-Minded, Joint Warfighters.
This LinkedIn page exists to help JAWS faculty, staff, and students - past, present, and future - to connect, engage, and tell our story.
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4moRealistic combat scenarios are the best but the adrenaline rush that pumps through the veins is mind blowing at times. 12 Years Royal Engineer, British Army