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Maintaining the Intellectual Edge: the Future
‘A GUIDE TO
Requirements of Command and Staff Training 2
KEEPING IN o
ACSC – Mid-life Crisis? 4
CONTACT
The College Chief of Staff’s perspective 7
WITH THE
From the Chair of The Cormorant Club 8
CORMORANT
The Cormorant Club Annual Reunion 2013 9

Transcript of Interview of Mr Tony Blair by CLUB
Commodore Toby Williamson, DACSC 10
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A long Way from Montreal (a Canadian Directing Future Club communication will be via
Staff’s relection on ACSC) 14
electronic means using the Defence Academy’s
Mars Returns: The Revival of Major War. 15
website:http://www.da.mod.uk/colleges/jscsc/
cc , and via the business networking site Linked
How to be a Great Leader –
In. The Cormorant Magazine and notiication

A Very Personal View 18
of news, and especially reunions will be posted t
on these sites. The advantage of joining Linked
A View from the Higher Command and Staff In is that you will be automatically informed by
Course 13 22
e-mail of news about the Club. To join Linked
Exercise ADEPT CORMORANT 26
In you will need to have access to the internet
and possess an email address, then:
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Serco at the Defence Academy 29

What is a ‘DSD’ (Defence Studies Department)? 30
1) Through your web browser, search for

Frontline Command Capability 35
Linked In or use this url: http://uk.linkedin.com/

Regional Security Exercise 1 (European Powers) 43
2) Fill in the necessary basic details to join
Regional Security Exercise 2 52
Linked In - irst name, last name, e-mail
address and selected password. Once you are a n
Combined Joint Exercise – Paris, Madrid,
Member, there is no need to provide any further
Hamburg and Rome 59
information beyond those basics unless you feel
the urge to do so.
Bands of Brothers – Staff Ride to Normandy 64

The Royal Air Force Club 66 3) In the search box at top centre of the
webpage, type in JSCSC Alumni, type in ‘JSCSC
International Families Day 68 t
Alumni’, press the Return key and request to
Cricket 70 join the JSCSC Alumni group.

Football 72
4) Entry to the ‘JSCSC Alumni’ group is
Ultimate Frisbee 72 controlled by the JSCSC Library staff on the
s
Hockey 73 basis of their database comprising the nominal
rolls of all staff college courses (dating back to
ACSC Olympiad 74 1799!). Once inside the ‘JSCSC Alumni’ group,

Polo 76 apply to join the ‘Cormorant Club’ sub-group.

Lerwill Cup Rugby 2013 – ‘Le Crunch’ 77
5) Once you are a member of the ‘Cormorant
Tough Guy 2013 78 Club’ sub-group, all announcements from the
Club will be automatically sent to you. All you
Triathlon 80
need to do is to keep your email address that is
Social Events 83 registered with Linked In up to date.

The ACSC16 Band – Means to End 87
The North American BBQ – Burgers, Beer
In all cases, the announcements on Linked
In will be duplicated at the above section of
.and a Mechanical Bull 90
the Defence Academy website - but we do not
Family Friendly Friday –
have the means of sending you alerts from
Putting life back in to the work-life balance. 92
that website, the onus would be on you to
periodically check it.’
The Purple Ball 2013 94

ACSC 16 Prize Winners 96

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