Centre for Security and Military Strategic Studies

Teaching

Center for Security and Military-Strategic Studies (hereinafter referred to as „CSMSS“) carries out educational activities mainly in the fields of security studies, military-strategic studies and strategic defence management, including strategic leadership. It guarantees security subjects in accredited and non-accredited study programmes of the University of Defence.

CSMSS is the guarantor of military career courses, which are intended to expand education to meet the basic qualification requirements for service in the ranks of senior officers and generals. The courses are prescribed as a necessary condition for career progression within the scope of the Department of the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic. Their goal is to provide extended general education to middle and senior management within the Ministry of Defence and outside of it. It also guarantees subjects of security studies in accredited study programmes of the University of Defence.

Studying in lifelong programmes can be carried out full-time, in a distance or in a combined form, in particular as:

  1. career courses;
  2. professional courses.

Participants of lifelong programmes from the MoD department are sent to the course by a decree in personnel matters or a personnel order. For the duration of the course, they remain members of their military unit (military establishment). Non-departmental course participants (including foreign ones) are offered courses through the Ministry of State Secretary’s Section.

Participants of the lifelong programmes can be both citizens of the Czech Republic and, based on international agreements, foreign nationals.

Studying in career courses and professional courses is organized per the Rules of Lifelong Education of the University of Defence and is described in the document „Study Course in Lifelong Education Programmes“.​

Within the framework of education, CSMSS ensures:

– Senior Officers Course (KVD);

– General Staff Course (KGŠ);

– Strategic Defence Management Course (KSŘO);

– Professional Course in Operations Planning (OKPO);

– Strategic Management Planning Course (KPSÚŘ).