How will the ICAF academic program prepare me for senior strategic leadership positions?
During the fall semester students take a series of courses that critically examine many of the policy areas crucial for national security. Areas of study include the nature of strategy, the Washington policy process and the interagency system, international affairs and foreign policy, and resourcing and integrating the military instrument of power into national processes for strategy development (and the challenges of implementing a strategy at both the international and theater level). Increasingly in the 21st century, if you dont understand economics, you cant fully understand the dynamics of domestic and international politics. ICAF is especially proud of the fact that it is the only war college with a Department of Economics and a full course on National and International Economic Policy covering macroeconomic and microeconomic topics such as monetary and fiscal policies, growth and technology (including the emergence of regional economic competitors), trade and finance, and the ec
