Source: WHISC home page: http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/academics_courses_description.htm, November 2002.

Course Length: 6 weeks

This course is designed to prepare students to serve as Civil Military Officers, either as military officers or as government civilian officials interacting with the military on civil military operations (CMO) activities. It consists of training in military civic action, the proper role of the military in support of civilian authority, civil defense, disaster preparedness/relief, and CMO support to counterdrug activities. Students are exposed to emerging U.S. military doctrine to organize and integrate the entire gamut of governmental, international, and non-governmental entities into coherent disaster preparedness/relief plans. Students are exposed to the interagency planning process by working with the local, state, and federal disaster relief agencies available in Georgia and Alabama.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: The student must be an officer with the rank of lieutenant through major, or the civilian military equivalent, and should be involved in the planning and coordination of civil-military operations.

CMS-2 Democratic Sustainment Course

Course Length: 6 weeks

This course introduces and teaches the theory and practice of military and civilian leadership in a constitutional nation-state, drawing on the shared traditions of the countries in the Western Hemisphere. It examines governmental operations, legal/military law, historical foundations of regional democracy, and religious influences. Instruction is presented in a variety of formats, including student papers and oral reports, guest lectures, liaison visits with city and county leaders, political groups, and public administrators.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

University Credit: Instruction in this course is presented at the post-baccalaureate level, with university credit applied from the Southern Association of Colleges and Universities.

Prerequisites: The student must be a military officer with the rank of captain through lieutenant colonel, or a civilian official equivalent, and possess a post-secondary education-level degree.

CMS-3 Departmental Resource Management and Logistics Course

Course Length: 7 weeks

This course gives students an understanding and appreciation of the concepts, principles, methods, techniques, and decision-making skills related to defense resources and logistics management and of selected military and official civilian leaders/managers. Instruction includes economic reasoning, management theory and group dynamics, quantitative reasoning, strategy/policy formulation, analytical decision-making, and program analysis, implementation, execution, and control. Using the lifecycle management model as a common thread, the course provides an overview of the Army logistics system and an enhanced understanding of the interrelationships and interdependence among logistics functions and the organizational structure of logistics management.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: Students must hold at least the military rank of major, or the civilian official equivalent, and work within a national-defense resource management and logistics-related field, such as finance, maintenance, or acquisition management. Students should have a working knowledge of algebra to handle the quantitative management techniques embodied in the course.

CMS-5 Human Rights Instructor Course

Course Length: 3 weeks

This course prepares students to qualify as human rights instructors at the battalion level. It provides a pragmatic approach to the integration of human rights into actual training environments. It includes a human rights core block of instruction, to include ethics, the doctrine of Just War, the historical development of human rights, case law, pertinent documents and principles, the relationship between human rights and the law of armed conflict, and a case study on the My Lai massacre. Course materials include a professionally developed human rights video, a booklet with pertinent reading materials, and a computer-assisted training package to help in presenting the instruction.

Prerequisites: The student must be a battalion-level training officer or senior noncommissioned officer in a position with responsibility to implement a structured human rights training program. It is recommended that the course be subscribed to as a follow-on from another course.

CMS-6 Peace Operations Course

Course Length: 7 weeks

This course familiarizes students with emerging U.S. doctrine for peace operations. Training focuses on the tactics, techniques and procedures of peace operations, including logistics support, chain-of-command structures, rules-of-engagement development, and intelligence capabilities and assets. Further instruction is conducted in preventive medicine and sanitation for peacekeepers as well as citizens. Training encompasses the role of civilian controls on military operations and the varying roles civilian non-governmental organizations have in supporting peace operations.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: The student must be a military officer with the rank of lieutenant through major, or a civilian official equivalent, who is familiar with operational-level planning and procedures.

CMS-7 International Operational Law Course

Course Length: 3 weeks

This course provides instruction on the legal responsibilities commonly faced by military and civilian leaders in both peacetime and times of conflict. Instruction in operational law includes the legal basis for the use of force, rules-of-engagement, development and training, and the Law of War in operations other war (including civilians supporting military operations). Students investigate international treaties and agreements, as well as international organizations that affect military operations. Students discuss current issues related to military operations, such as human rights, military discipline, non-combatant evacuation, and domestic-support operations.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: The student must be a military officer or civilian official engaged in the planning and execution of military operations or supporting operations involving military personnel.

DEV-1 Computer Literacy Training Course

Course Length: 2 weeks, 3 days

This course is designed to teach the student the latest standard computer software programs. It consists of performance-oriented instruction and practice in the application of programs for database, spreadsheets, graphics, and word processing.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: The student must be an officer, noncommissioned officer, or soldier, or a civilian official.

DEV-2 Instructor Course

Course Length: 2 weeks, 3 days

This course is designed to provide students with the theory and practice of concepts, methods, techniques, and technology of performance-oriented training. Students receive instruction on such topics as adult learning principles, methods of instruction, training aids, communication skills, and interaction and control techniques.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: The student must be an officer, noncommissioned officer, or soldier, or a civilian official.

LDR-1 Cadet Leadership Development Course - Infantry

Course Length: 4 weeks

This course introduces cadets to the basic fundamentals of operating at the small unit leadership level. During the tactics portion of the training, students learn basic light-infantry squad and platoon operations, air-assault operations planning, and the application of leadership theory in a field environment. The course is designed to produce leaders with character, who are self-aware, adaptable and able to demonstrate the characteristics of a successful military leader.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: Students must be in their third or fourth year of military academy training and be in excellent physical condition.

LDR-4 Cadet Troop Leader Training Course

Course Length: 2 weeks

This course provides cadets with training in U.S. military doctrine, new technology and leadership development. Professional-development training is provided through classroom and training scenarios involving the laws of war and human rights. Students receive hands-on training in the use of computer simulations, and night operations and air movement capabilities with the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. They also receive new technology demonstrations. Field training consists of tactical force-on-force operations in which the Multiple Integrated Laser System (MILES) is used to provide the students with direct feedback to enhance their awareness of leadership challenges in a command and control scenario.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: Students should be in their third or fourth year of military academy training.

LDR-5 Inspector General Course

Course Length: 5 weeks

This course is designed to educate and develop the qualities, behavior, knowledge, and skills required by Inspectors General (IG). Students are taught the IG policies and processes required to perform the full-service functions of inspections, assistance, investigations, and teaching and training. Various guest speakers provide insight to contemporary IG issues. A final practical exercise allows the students to put into practice their knowledge of IG policies and procedures during a series of exercises designed to simulate the operation of a full-service IG office.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: The student must be a military officer with the rank of captain through lieutenant colonel, or a civilian official equivalent, who has been selected to serve as an IG. Students must be in excellent physical condition.

MTT-1 Joint Operations Mobile Training Team

Course Length: 2 weeks

This course is conducted by a WHINSEC Mobile Training Team (MTT) deployed to the requesting country. Similar to the Joint Operations Course, it prepares field-grade officers to function as multinational and joint-operations officers. The training is divided into six sections: National Defense Strategy, Military Instruments of Power, Joint Planning, Crisis-Action Planning, Regional Contingency Planning, and a force-projection wargame. The wargame is designed to integrate all previous joint-operations instruction. The training is conducted through formal lectures and ample case-study analysis.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: The student must be a field-grade officer with the rank of major or above, or a selected civilian official. The student must also be a graduate of an accredited command and general staff officer course, or a civilian official equivalent.

MTT-2 Battalion/Brigade Staff Operations Mobile Training Team

Course Length: 2 weeks

This course is conducted by a WHINSEC Mobile Training Team (MTT) deployed to the requesting country. Through the use of multiple exercises, this course develops battalion and brigade-level staff planning in senior company-grade or junior field-grade officers. The students learn to function as battle staff members at the battalion and brigade level. Decision-making is the course focal point. Students conduct intelligence preparation of the battlefield, prepare personnel, logistics, and civil-military operations estimates, develop courses of action, write orders and annexes, and coordinate the execution of command decisions.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: The student must be a military officer with the rank of captain or major, a graduate of an officer advanced course, and be in excellent physical condition.

NPME-7 Noncommissioned Officer Career Course

Course Length: 5 weeks

This course prepares junior noncommissioned officers (NCOs) to plan and conduct individual and unit training at the squad and platoon-level, and to conduct common task qualification training. Students learn basic leadership skills, NCO duties, responsibilities, authority, and methods of conducting performance-oriented training. Additional instruction for each student integrates a mandated minimum of 12 hours of instruction on human rights, the rule of law, due process, civilian control of the military, and the role of the military in a democratic society.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: Students must be noncommissioned officers with the minimum grade of corporal or equivalent. Students should have at least three years of service experience, be physically fit and mentally capable to complete the course objectives.

NPME-8 Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development Course

Course Length: 6 weeks

This course trains selected noncommissioned officers (NCOs) to lead, train, and direct subordinates at the squad and platoon-level. Instruction focuses on training management, battle staff planning, and squad and platoon tactics. Students acquire additional skills through training in fire support, leadership, communications, and land navigation. The course integrates a mandated minimum 12 hours of instruction on human rights, the rule of law, due process, civilian control of the military, and the role of the military in a democratic society.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: Students must be noncommissioned officers with the minimum grade of sergeant or equivalent, and must have previous experience in a squad or platoon-level leadership position. Students should have at least three years of service experience, be physically fit and mentally capable to complete the course objectives.

OPME-3 Captains Career Course

Course Length: 18 weeks

This course is designed to train combined arms company commanders and battalion-level staff officers. Students initially receive foundation-building instruction in the fundamentals of leadership, training management, communications, land navigation, and military law. This is followed by extensive study of the battle operating system, including intelligence preparation of the battlefield, logistics, combat engineer employment, use of indirect fire and close air support, and civil affairs. Using small-group instruction, students then study the tactical level of war and plan military operations at the company and battalion level.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: The student must be a military officer with the rank of senior lieutenant or captain, be a basic branch course graduate, and have troop-leading or battalion staff experience. The student should have 4-12 years of commissioned experience and be in good physical condition.

OPME-4 Command and General Staff Officer Course

Course Length: 49 weeks

This course educates and trains officers of all Services for duty as field-grade commanders and principal staff officers at brigade an division level. The curriculum combines the doctrine and principles of combat-service-support functions. Graduates will be able to command battalions, brigades, and equivalent-sized units in peace or war; train these units to accomplish their assigned missions; employ and sustain weapon and equipment systems in combined arms operations; efficiently manage manpower, equipment, money, and time. The course includes an orientation tour of the U.S., during which students visit major military installations, service schools, and Washington, D.C. Academic content is oriented to the university and post-graduate level of instruction.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Accreditation: This course has been accredited by the Department of the Army as equivalent to the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College course, which is presented at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. U.S. students attending WHINSEC's CGSOC receive Military Education Level 4 (MEL4) and Joint Military Professional Education (JMPE) Phase I designation upon graduation.

Prerequisites: The student should be a commissioned military officer, major and above, who has credit for a branch officer advanced course (or equivalent). University or military academy graduate is preferred. Captains are accepted only with an approved waiver from the Commandant. U.S. personnel selected to attend must be able to speak, read, and write in Spanish.

OPME-5 Joint Operations Course

Course Length: 5 weeks

Through formal lectures and ample case study analysis this course trains field-grade officers to function as multinational and joint-operations officers. The training is divided into six sections: National Defense Strategy, Military Instruments of Power, Joint Planning, Crisis-Action Planning, Regional Contingency Planning, and a force-projection wargame. The joint-operations force protection wargame is conducted as a capstone exercise to integrate all previous joint operations instruction.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: The student should be a military field-grade officer, major or above, or a selected civilian official. The student should also be a graduate of an accredited command and general staff course or civilian official equivalent.

TAC-2 Intelligence Officer Course

Course Length: 8 weeks

This course is designed to train military intelligence officers to perform the duties of a tactical intelligence staff officer in a conventional military environment, and in military operations other than war. Its curriculum provides a working knowledge of the employment of the tactical intelligence cycle: intelligence preparation of the battlefield; use of tactical counterintelligence; security of intelligence information and operations; threat analysis; internal defense and development; and training in automated data processing in support of intelligence operations.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: The student must be a military intelligence officer with the rank of lieutenant through major. A computer background is helpful, but not necessary.

TAC-4 Information Operations Course

Course Length: 8 weeks

This course gives students a common baseline of Information Operations (IO) knowledge upon which to correctly and legally employ IO tools and techniques. The course focuses on teaching approved U.S. Army IO doctrine and joint IO policy guidance. The primary emphasis is to train students to function as IO staff officers and advisors at the division and joint levels. Students learn to plan, organize, and supervise the integration of all resources into effective IO campaigns in military operations peace and in times of conflict. Students are instructed in the critical roles of public affairs and civic action in command and control (C2) operations, as well as the separation of these abilities to ensure institutional credibility, effectiveness, and international legitimacy. The course concludes with a practical exercise that focuses on the role of information management in integrated IO.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: The student must be a military officer with the rank of captain through lieutenant colonel, or an equivalent civilian official, who serves in a staff position in operations, communications, intelligence, or planning.

TAC-6 Counterdrug Operations Course

Course Length: 10 weeks

This course is designed to provide selected military and law enforcement personnel with specialized training in the development of battalion-level staff and small-unit leadership skills in the areas of planning, leading, and executing counterdrug operations. All training is oriented toward realistic and demanding field operations, and emphasizes staff planning and command and control techniques. Students receive comprehensive instruction and training on the full spectrum of counterdrug tactics and techniques, including: advanced marksmanship; precision operations in urban environments; reconnaissance techniques; clandestine airfield interdiction techniques; drug laboratory destruction and safety considerations; and tactical patrolling operations. Students are rotated through leadership and staff-planning positions for optimal experience and learning opportunities.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: Students must be noncommissioned officers or officers with either a national police or military unit dedicated to counterdrug-interdiction or support to law enforcement counterdrug operations. They must be motivated, physically fit (capable of scoring 210 on the Army Physical Fitness Test; minimum of 70 in each event), and prepared to conduct field-training exercises oriented toward realistic and demanding operations.

TAC-7 Medical Assistance Course

Course Length: 6 weeks

This course is designed to train noncommissioned officers and civilians to perform lifesaving measures and apply advanced field medical care in support of combat or counterdrug operations. In addition to basic lifesaver measures, students gain knowledge of human anatomy, the treatment of complicated injuries, fluid replacement, splinting, suturing, etc. They also receive training beneficial to tactical units with civic-action and counterdrug missions. That training consists of water purification, emergency childbirth, and minor surgical procedures. To graduate, students must pass four written tests with a score of 70 percent or better, and successfully complete the Expert Field Medical Course, where they demonstrate their medical skills, under stress, in simulated conditions.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: The student must be an officer, noncommissioned officer, or civilian equivalent, have basic medical experience, be a junior high school graduate, and be in excellent physical condition.

TAC-8 Engineer Operations Course

Course Length: 10 weeks

Taught in accordance with U.S. doctrine, this course trains engineers or other combined arms officers and noncommissioned officers to conduct basic engineer operations through the use of light engineer and light infantry tactics, techniques, and procedures. It also teaches basic medical and communications skills and leadership development. The course is taught in both classroom and field environments, and includes a 96-hour field training exercise in which the students perform simulated missions. Additional training is designed to instruct personnel to recognize and detect areas of mines and booby traps, which have been employed throughout the Western Hemisphere. Students will be required to complete several road marches carrying heavy loads. They will perform continuous operations in a field environment with a minimum of food and sleep, therefore high motivation is encouraged and expected.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: Students must be engineers or other combat arms officers with the rank of lieutenant or captain; or a noncommissioned officer with the grade of sergeant or above. Students should have experience with demolitions, infantry tactics, and field craft, and a knowledge of basic mathematics. In addition, students must not have any limits or profiles, and should be able to pass the Army Physical Fitness Test (AFPT) with a minimum of 70 percent in each event. They must be able to execute a minimum of six shin ups and pass a water survival swim test. Students over 40 must have a current physical that clears them for training.

TAC-10 Counterdrug Information Analyst Course

Course Length: 6 weeks

This course is designed to introduce students to the demanding intelligence analyst career when operating in a counterdrug environment. The course provides basic intelligence duties and responsibilities in tactical intelligence, intelligence preparation of the area of operations, security of operations, and analysis techniques. It also prepares students to operate in a joint intelligence center.

Mandatory Human Rights Awareness Training: Students receive formal instruction and discuss human rights issues that affect military and police participation in operations during war, conflict, and peace. Students receive theoretical training in the definition, concepts, and historical development of present-day human rights and international humanitarian law precepts. When appropriate, situational exercises are embedded in tactical training. All students must take a human rights written exam.

Prerequisites: Students should be a military officer with the rank of lieutenant through major; a noncommissioned officer in the grade of sergeant through master sergeant; or a civilian official in the intelligence field (with an intelligence background). A computer background is helpful, but not necessary.