COURSE OVERVIEW

The National Resilience College is the senior college of the National
Centre for Defence Studies of the Malaysian Armed Forces. We provide
the capstone to the strategic education of those officers of the Armed
Forces and equivalent civil servants who have the potential to reach the
highest ranks and who must therefore understand and be comfortable
working at the strategic level in a cross-government and international
environment. The college was established in accordance with the
strategic vision of the late Yang Amat Berhormat Tun Abdul Razak bin
Dato’ Hussien’s vision of promoting greater understanding between
senior military officers, diplomats, civil servants, officials and the
corporate sector. The NRC is a strategic college designed to provide
best practices for the highest level of thinking process in achieving the
nation’s grand interest. The course at NRC will be the continuity of
studies of the Malaysian Armed Forces Defence College and Malaysian
Armed Forces Staff College but with emphasis on high-level studies at
the grand strategic level focusing on defence and security of the nation,
regional and global.
Officially the NRC was established on 31st July 2019 to cater for the
professional development of the Malaysian Armed Forces officers of
Brigadier General and Colonel in rank or equivalent. The study program
is known as the National Resilience program with the academic program
provided for and in collaboration with the National Defence University of
Malaysia (NDUM). The NRC 2021 cohort will span an academic year
from 4th January to 24th December 2021 with the aim of providing
Course Members (CM) with third level Professional Military Education
(PME), in international affairs, security, policy and strategy.