Directors Welcome Welcome to the Intermediate Command and Staff Course (Land).  This 30 week course is attended by all Army majors on promotion.  ICSC(L) provides an entire cohort with a wide-ranging, comprehensive, mid-career development and education.  ICSC(L) looks at all aspects of Army business, with the focus on leadership and success on operations – our core business.   By the end of the course our students will have developed their analytical and communication skills, widened their professional knowledge and stimulated their motivation to support a career as a Major and Lieutenant Colonel in command and on the staff.  The students are expected to work hard with a mix of preparatory work, central lectures, many by distinguished visiting lecturers, syndicate work, exercises, and private study.  The course has been designed to be interactive and there is a healthy mix of topical and at time controversial lectures to stimulate discussion and broaden horizons. The course is not all about work, however, and there are opportunities for a wide variety of sporting, extra-mural and social pursuits.

Course Aim: To prepare Majors for appointments in sub-unit command and on the staff up to and including Lieutenant Colonel.

Course Endstate: An officer with the requisite analytical and communication skills, professional knowledge and understanding, and the motivation to support a career as a Major and Lieutenant Colonel, on the staff and as a Major in command.