Joaan Bin Jassim Joint Command and Staff College opened yesterday the National Defense Course No. 1 in the presence of HE the Chief of Staff of the Qatari Armed Forces Lieutenant-General (Pilot) Ghanem bin Shaheen al-Ghanem. The 43-day course will be attended by senior staff of the various state ministries, institutions and security agencies and senior officers of the Armed Forces. The course will give them a master’s degree in defence and security studies. Commenting on the 
occasion, Commander of Joaan Bin Jassim Joint Command and Staff College Major General Fahad Mubarak al-Khayareen stressed the importance of the National Defence Course as it qualifies civil and military intellectual and leadership elites, and provide them a strategic vision capable of studying strategic environment variables and employing the various elements of the state’s power in building national policies and strategies, in order to protect the national interests.