The Joint Warfare Establishment was a British military training establishment based at

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History

The Joint Warfare Establishment was formed at Old Sarum in Wiltshire on 31 March 1963 when the School of Land/Air Warfare (formed in 1947 at Old Sarum) was merged with the Amphibious Warfare School (formerly based at

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).Joint Warfare Establishment
Air of Authority Its first commandant was Air Vice-Marshal

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. Its role was to teach officers from the three services to work as one unit when fighting local wars; typical courses lasted 10 days at a time and each course was attended by about 50 officers mainly of

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rank.Joint Warfare Establishment
Naval Review, Vol. 64, No. 1, January 1976 However the establishment also had more specialist roles as the training centre for British

psychological warfare Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PsyOp), has been known by many other names or terms, including Military Information Support Operations ( MISO), Psy Ops, political warfare, "Hearts and Mi ...

operations and as the training centre for forward air controller training. The establishment was disbanded in 1978 when such courses were transferred to the Joint Warfare Wing of the National Defence College at Latimer.Psychological Operations
Hansard, 6 May 1988

References

{{reflist Training establishments of the British Army