-Major Abu Md Shahnoor Shawon, EB
Introduction
1. The role of an Army is the successful armed combat and the success of a developing Army like ours depends on its officer corps. The quality of an Army is directly proportional to the professionalism of its officer corps. Officers are the most vital component of any Army. Their prime task is to prepare and lead the army to the path of victory in the event of war. To keep the army at a constant state of readiness its leaders must be professionally competent. They have to be well educated and adequately trained home and abroad in modern warfare technology and techniques of battle as well as be masters of the equipment that they have to use. That is why it is very important for the officers of Bangladesh Army to participate in different kind of foreign courses.
2. Every year a lot of officers from Bangladesh Army are going to different countries to get trained and be more professional. In this process of learning our officers also takes part in the courses which is offered by Canadian Government. We take part in two different courses in Canada one is JCSC and another one is AOC. I was fortunate enough to take part in the JCSC-18, Canada from Bangladesh army where there were 28 officers from 24 different nations. This was indeed my first foreign course. In this course up to this time total 15 officers from Bangladesh Army took part and all of them have successfully completed it. This course provides an unique opportunity to go one more time as guest Directing Staff, and many of our officers got this opportunity. From the commencement of this course this was the eighteenth one. Since 2004 total 527 officers from more than 64 nations have completed this course. 3. The JCSC was a course of 15 week duration which started from 05 September completed on 13 December 2013. This course takes place in Land