BDCOL

The Baltic Defence College is a multinational military college, established by the three Baltic states in 1999. It acts as a centre of strategic and operational research and provides professional military education to intermediate- and senior-level officers and government officials from the three Baltic states and from NATO and EU countries, as well as other European nations like Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine.ResearchThe Baltic Defence College hosts roundtable seminars and major conferences annually, including a Cyber Conference and a Conference on Russian 'Power Projection'.

The college's academic faculty also engage in personal research, generating a range of different articles, books and commentaries each year.CoursesThe Baltic Defence College runs two main courses, the largest of which is the Joint Command and General Staff Course – similar to other one-year general staff courses. In 2004, the college established a Higher Command Studies Course, which provides senior officers and government officials with a thorough understanding of the strategic environment. A Civil Servants Course is also run to prepare junior government officials for national security and defence-policy work.

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