• Advanced Security Cooperation (ASC) and Comprehensive Crisis Management (CCM) has been integrated into the
    the new Comprehensive Security Course

Comprehensive Security Course (CSC)

This course fosters critical thinking and a comprehensive perspective in mid-career security practitioners from governments and other influential agencies from all over the Indo-Pacific region. It is especially useful for those working in complex security environments dealing with geopolitical powers, crises, violent extremism, and transnational threats. In supportive surroundings, fellows assess their security environments, identify threats, investigate security disruptors, and probe governance challenges as they work together to build relationships and mutual understanding, and identify resilient solutions that improve national and regional security. Throughout this educationally empowering, security cooperation program, capacity is developed in security practitioners to support the ideals of rules-based international order, and a free and open Indo-Pacific, with the expectation that we all identify how best to contribute to regional security.

Indo-Pacific Orientation Course (IPOC)

This one-week Course  covers trends and current issues shaping the regional security environment. The course focuses on U.S. policy and provides an introduction to regional cultures, politics, protocols and challenges. The curriculum broadly examines: Security Foundations; Regional Security Perspectives; Country Specific Issues; Transnational Issues; Governance, and Development and Security Cooperation Issues. This rigorous program of lectures and interactive sessions better equips graduating course Fellows with policy perspectives and tools important for duties at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, service/functional components, and other U.S. Government Agencies and Activities. MASL: SAP0004

Comprehensive Security Responses to Terrorism Course (CSRT)

This four-week course provides focused knowledge and skills practiced at the operational and strategic level, all designed to enhance Fellow’s ability to work together to counter ideological support for and combat terrorism cooperatively for the long term. The course facilitates relationships among current and future counter-terrorism practitioners. It also helps engender trust necessary for increased information sharing and identify ways to reduce cultural obstacles to cooperation in the international struggle against terrorism. MASL: SAP0002

Comprehensive Maritime Security Cooperation (CMSC)

This course is designed to enhance the capability of interagency officials from governments, militaries, regional bodies, non-governmental and international organizations to promote a free and open Indo-Pacific region and to foster shared understanding to protect the rules-based international order. The course will deepen appreciation of the maritime domain and its role in national, regional and geopolitical security dynamics. Participants will enhance their recognition of the broad range of maritime stakeholders, their shared interests, and whole-of-society opportunities for security cooperation. All involved will gain knowledge, skills and networks to advance security, stability and prosperity in a free and open Indo-Pacific at the agency, national, and regional level, with the goal to advance understanding of international law, rules, and norms of behavior.

CMSC will enable appreciation of the role and uses of sea power, the key drivers of security dynamics within the Indo-Pacific and the significant maritime challenges facing the region. The course will encourage use of analytical tools, best practices, confidence-building measures, rules-based approaches and key enablers for security cooperation, risk management, and dispute resolution to comprehensively address maritime security challenges. Participants will develop professional relationships and networks of trust among a community of mid-career officials from a wide variety of militaries, civilian ministries, law enforcement agencies, regional bodies, non-governmental and international organizations addressing maritime issues across the Indo-Pacific region.

MASL SAP0007

Course Description


Transnational Security Cooperation (TSC) for senior executives

This one-week course is an intensive program for current senior leaders. It is designed for military officers at the two- and three-star level and director/general civilian equivalents from the Indo-Pacific region. The curriculum emphasizes the impact of change in the region and evolving security roles, capabilities, and opportunities. MASL: SAP0003

Contact Us

Course Allocations Program Recruiter Mr. Terry Slattery 808-971-8951 Recruiter@apcss.org

College of Security Studies Faculty, Curriculum and General Questions ColofSecStudiesOps@apcss.org 808-971-8924

Admissions/Registration Please go to the Admissions section to view detailed information on registration and requirements.

The Fellow’s Project

Organizational projects that are initiated at the Center and completed upon each Fellow’s return home. Each Fellow devises a project that analyzes a pertinent issue and for which he/she then offers a feasible, implementable solution.

Successful Fellow’s Project Examples:

  • Improve coordination between the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Foreign Service Institute in foreign policy formulation.
  • Increase civilian participation in defense strategic planning at the Ministry of Defense.
  • Develop effective interagency coordination processes to respond to major natural disasters.
  • Enhance ASEAN mil-mil cooperation in disaster response.
  • Promotion of diversity in defense department planning.
  • Develop international cooperative mechanisms to countering piracy in the Gulf of Aden.