to keep pace with the development of arming officers with accredited academic degrees and listing the joint command and staff college side by side with the academic institutions accredited by the ministry of higher education, the armed forces have developed the curricula of the joint command and staff course to meet the requirements of academic accreditation in coordination with abu dhabi university. the curricula were reformed and the subjects redistributed on the basis of credit hours, taken from the sub-curricula of the former course; however, the new curricula were designed to maintain the mission of the college and present the military arts and sciences with the same sequence and intensity previously used.