Start the 140 ° course of the General Staff

10/09/14

The attending officers of the 140 ° course of General Staff yesterday arrived at the Application School, in Turin, to continue and complete the specialization training process.

The course, started last May with a first phase of remote study lasting 18 weeks, in e-learning mode, continues with the residential phase, mainly technical-professional, and will end in May next year.

This formative moment, of great value for the intellectual and professional path of the army officers, provides the users with the ability to operate within the brigade level Major States, both in national and multinational contexts.

During the course the attending officers will discuss, through lectures, exercises, seminars and conferences, with the processes of "Decision Making" and the development of planning, in the terrestrial dimension and the tactical level, in the context of the "Full Spectrum of Operation" and in line with the doctrine and procedures foreseen in the armed force.

The 140 course of Staff is composed of 218 Officers, among which 18 of female sex and 1 of foreign nationality coming from Brazil, and among the frequenters there are the female officers of various weapons, enrolled in the 2000 with the 182 ° course of the Military Academy which, during the training process, for the first time have access to the General Staff course.

Source: Command for Training, Specialization and Army Doctrine