Mubarak al-Abdullah Joint Command and Staff College | |
Native Name: | كلية مبارك العبدالله للقيادة و الأركان المشتركة |
Established: | 1995 |
Head Label: | Commandant |
Website: | http://www.majcsc.gov.kw |
The Mubarak al-Abdullah Joint Command and Staff College (MAJCSC) is a military educational institution in Kuwait City which prepares field grade officers to lead at the operational level of warfare.[1]
The college was established in 1995 in cooperation with Staff College, Camberley. On 18 August 1997, the college was named Mubarak al-Abdullah Command and Staff College in honor of Lieutenant General Mubarak Al-Abdullah, the former Chief of General Staff of the Kuwaiti Army during 1963 to 1980. In 2001, the college was renamed Mubarak Al-Abdullah Mubarak al-Abdullah Joint Command and Staff College. It retains connections with the British Joint Services Command and Staff College in Shrivenham, United Kingdom.[2] In August 2008, Charles, Prince of Wales visited the college.[3] This is the only college in the region accredited by the UK Defence Academy as delivering a course equivalent to its own Advanced Command and Staff Course [4]