The Caribbean Junior Command and Staff Course (CJCSC) braved a new aspect to its programme; a course that is designed to develop officers who are junior leaders into Staff Officers, takes on an up – to – date phase to its curriculum.

CJCSC now has an International Security Studies component to the training programme. This new feature will see CJCSC going beyond its regular borders as it relates to what is being taught in the course.

International Security Studies has to do with security issues and its impacts, on a basis larger than national level it also serves to promote critical thinking while enabling candidates to arrive at logical solutions to any given situation. Traces of this topic have been explored on prior courses however, for the first time in CJCSC, full emphasis is being placed on the full subject matter, arming students with the requisite knowledge to harmonize the capacity of Staff Officers.

The Operational Planning Process likewise, serves to strengthen candidate’s knowledge base and prepare them to be effective and efficient Staff Officers. This give students the opportunity to conduct group planning, with operational goals and objectives in mind, it also give them the insight of how to plan and mobilize force at Brigade level. Students are given real scenarios from which to conduct group planning and execution at Brigade level. Over all, the new facet of the course serves to improve on the efficiency of junior officers while preparing them to be functioning Staff Officers.

Major Rodrick Williams who is the Standards Officer of the course, spoke to the fact that the introduction of the international security studies and operational planning process are the special novelties of CJCSC to date. “This is a new section to the programme and one that is worth keeping, it sees candidates actually planning as a group and implementing measures at levels larger than the usual”.       

20 January 2010 marked the beginning of a recent addition to CJCSC. With subject matters spanning over a five month period, the course is scheduled to graduate on the 09 June 2010. The student body consist of persons throughout the region and extends as for as Canada and the United States of America. Over the years the course placed emphasis on written and oral communications, leadership and military tactics. This course however, has to it, the introduction of international security studies and operational planning process.

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