Duration: 8 Weeks

Purpose: This course is designed to develop battalion- and brigade-level staff planning skills in senior company grade or junior field grade officers through the execution of exercises.

Scope: The students will learn to function as various members of a battle staff at battalion and brigade level. The course focal point is the decision making process. Staffs conduct Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB), prepare personnel, logistics and civil military operations estimates, develop courses of action, write orders and annexes, and coordinate the execution of command decisions.

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(Copied from School of the Americas website, February 1998.)