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MCWAR, the smallest of the war colleges, was founded in 1990 as the art of war studies program at Quantico, Virginia. Under its present name, it became the Marine Corps’ professional military education school the following year. In 1994 it began offering a certificate in art of war studies. MCWAR’s mission is to educate select senior officers for decision making during war and military operations. The typical class at MCWAR includes seven U.S. Marine Corps officers; two navy, army, and air force officers; a Coast Guard officer; and a civilian military official.

National Defense University

The NDU, established in 1976 and headquartered at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., serves as the primary research and policy-development institution for the Department of Defense. It also provides a joint educational program for senior military leadership. It is under the direction of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The NDU initially included two institutions: the National War College (NWC) and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), later the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy. Both were created after World War II to provide leadership education for members of different service branches. Added later to the university’s makeup were the Joint Forces Staff College (JFSC; 1981), the Information Resources Management College (1982), and the College of International Security Affairs (CISA; 2002). The NDU also has specialized centres that conduct research into various aspects of national security, including the Institute for National Strategic Studies, the Center for Technology and National Security Policy, and the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction. In 1994 the NDU began granting a Master of Science degree in national resource strategy to graduates of the Eisenhower School and a Master of Science degree in national security strategy to graduates of NWC. By the early 21st century the CISA granted a Master of Arts in strategic security studies, and the Joint Advanced Warfighting School of the JFSC granted a Master of Science in joint campaign planning and strategy.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Michael Ray.