CCMR programs support the three DoD strategic objectives of:

• establishing security conditions conducive to a favorable international order
• strengthening alliances and partnerships to contend with common challenges and
• securing strategic access and retaining global freedom of action.

Civil-Military Relations

The Civil-Military Relations (CMR) courses are tailored to address general or in depth aspects of civil-military relations, including civilian control of the military, media-military relations, building linkages between the military and the legislature, intelligence and democracy.

Peace Operations

Enhanced International Peacekeeping Capabilities (EIPC) courses builds institutional peace support operations education and training for EIPC recipient countries worldwide.

The Leader Development and Education for Sustained Peace (LDESP) program prepares leaders and units deploying to Stability Operations, to accomplish the mission in cooperation with multinational partners, other US Agencies and civil authorities. It provides an educational foundation enabling leadership and units to establish a frame of reference for understanding the complex, ambiguous, and rapidly changing stability operations environment.

Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) is a comprehensive program which builds peace support operations (PSO) capability and capacity through education and training worldwide. GPOI programs include the Cobra Gold Exercise; command post, military exercise (CPX), field training military exercise (FTX); train the trainers (TTT); the EIPC program etc.

International Defense Acquisition

The International Defense Acquisition Resource Mangement (IDARM) program offers a wide range of defense acquisition resource management courses that address acquisition, contracting, and program management.

Combating Terrorism

In support of the ‘Regional Defense Counter-Terrorism Fellowship' program (RDCTF), CCMR developed a series of custom built courses for bilateral, regional, and global audiences. The program provides a comprehensive approach to examining how governments can respond effectively to terrorism.

Stabilization and Reconstruction

The Center for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies (CSRS) is a teaching and research institute created in September 2004. The center's purpose is to educate the full-spectrum of stabilization and reconstruction (S&R) actors, including US and foreign military officers, civilian government officials, and representatives from non-governmental organizations, and international organizations.

Long Term Education Projects

CCMR's unique capacity-building program provides recipient counties with Department of Defense expertise in the area of defense management. It responds to and facilitates the spread of democratic defense management norms throughout the world in order to improve legitimacy, effectiveness and efficiency of defense, and security institutions.