Portuguese Joint Command and Staff College


The Portuguese Joint Command and Staff College or IESM is the military university establishment that provides training and education to experienced officers of the three service branches of the Portuguese Armed Forces and of the Portuguese National Republican Guard.
The training and education given by the IESM focuses in the general areas of administration, strategy and operations, as well in the specific areas related with the Navy, the Army, the Air Force and the GNR.
The IESM was created in 2005, from the merger of the former three separate staff colleges of the Portuguese Army, of the Portuguese Navy and of the Portuguese Air Force. It occupies the installations of the former IAEM at Pedrouços, Lisbon.

Academics

The Portuguese Joint Command and Staff College offers the following academic programs:
  1. Joint Staff,
  2. Army Staff;
  1. Navy,
  2. Army Combat Arms and Service Support,
  3. Army Health and Technical Services,
  4. Air Force,
  5. GNR Military Administration,
  6. GNR Arms of Service,
  7. GNR Personnel and Secretariat;
  1. Psychological Operations Planning,
  2. Civil-military co-operation,
  3. Introduction to Media,
  4. African Studies.