The event was opened by MG Vladimer Chachibaia, Chief of the General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces. MG Chachibaia emphasized that development of the Georgian NCO Professional Military Education (PME) system is one of the top priorities of the Georgian Armed Forces. Read More
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas —
Beyond the technical objectives of military training that many may think of when visualizing the armed services, a goal of the U.S. is to immerse our international allies and partners to the “American way of life”. Read More
February 1-11, 2021 – Dr. Gawdat Bahgat led the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies Executive Seminar on Global Power Competition (GPC). Read More
DIILS conducted a three week seminar in June on the International Law of Military Operations (ILOMO) for some 70 lawyers and legal advisors at Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island. ILOMO, held in partnership with the Naval War College and the Naval Justice School, both of Read More
On 30 September 2021, NESA Professors Dr. Michael Bell and Charles Marks delivered the preliminary design to transform the Saudi Armed Forces Command and Staff College into the Saudi Arabian National Defense University. Read More
Brigadier General Fadzillah bt Adbullah, RMAF, Director General of Malaysian Armed Forces Defence Training, and a delegation of five Malaysian military training staff officers representing the various branches of the Malaysian Ministry of Defence visited National Defense Read More
By Emma Bareihs, GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – A leader of the 2011 U.S. national Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime, Gregory T. Gatjanis spoke to 104 participants from 53 nations on the framework and tools of national power that led to creating the... Read More
From 30 October to 3 November 2023, the NESA Center for Strategic Studies held a Washington Embassy Orientation (WEO) combined with a Washington Seminar at the Army Navy Club in Washington D.C. Read More
On 14 December 2022, the NESA Center professional military education (PME) team met with leadership and the directing staff from the Royal Jordanian National Defense College (RJNDC) on their campus outside Amman, Jordan. Read More
From 29–30 November 2022, the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard hosted a conference titled “The Pakistan Conference: 75 Years of Independence” in Cambridge, MA, co-sponsored by t Read More
The National Defense College (NDC) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) sent a student delegation to the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies for two days of classroom instruction as part of their Washington Study Visit on 8–9 March 2023. Read More
NEWPORT -- 16 international participants graduated from the 14th DIILS "Law of Armed Conflict and Human Rights" course. The participants lived and studied at Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island while attending this three week seminar, which enabled them to ascertain Read More
NEWPORT, RI, 21 July 2017 Colonel Kirk Davies, United States Air Force, assumed the directorship of the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS), in a Change of Director Ceremony officiated by Mr. Read More
From 23 August – 1 September 2022, the Near East South Asia Center’s professional military education (PME) team conducted the second iteration of the CAPSTONE strategic leader education program for a select audience of rising Iraqi senior leaders. Read More
An investigation specialist from the UN Office of Internal Oversight Service visited Newport to discuss how peacekeeping troop contributing countries can effectively gather evidence in cases of sexual misconduct in remote mission areas. Later, the 24 participants fr Read More
06 April 2021– NESA Center faculty met with present members of policing agencies and governmental agencies to discuss community-oriented policing (COP) and its applicability of countering violent extremism (CVE). Read More