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5 unusual facts about École militaire


École Militaire

The École de guerre can be compared to the Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK, and the Command and General Staff College, US.

It succeeds the former Collège interarmées de Défense (Joint Service Defense College), itself the result of the merger of the four Écoles supérieures de guerre of the French Army, French Navy, French Air Force and National Gendarmerie, and the Cours supérieur interarmées since 1 September 1993.

Kaleem Saadat

Saadat has qualified Basic Weapons Course, Turkey; Flying Instructors' Course from Risalpur; Staff College and Air War Course from PAF Air War College; L'ESGI and CSI from the École Militaire in France; and National Defence Course from the National Defence College, Islamabad.

His foreign tours include: Exchange Pilot in Turkey (1977–78); Deputation to Algeria (1980–83); War Course at the École Militaire, Paris, France (1989–90).

Vong Sarendy

In 1968, Vong spent a 2 year internship in the prestigious École Militaire in Paris.


Aksel Airo

Afterwards he was trained as an officer in Lappeenranta artillery school and was sponsored to the French military academy, École militaire in St.-Cyr in 1920.

Prix du Cadran

The event is named after a clock face (cadran) at the École Militaire, a building located alongside its original venue, the Champ de Mars.


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George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield

Eliott was educated at the University of Leiden in the Dutch Republic and studied artillery and other military subjects at the école militaire of La Fère in France.

Vietnamese National Army

The Preparatory Military School (école militaire préparatoire, EMP) of Dalat was directed by Lieutenant Savani, a metropolitan French who was educated in the Autun EMP.