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The National War College (NWC) was officially established on July 1, 1946, as an upgraded replacement for the Army-Navy Staff College, which operated from June 1943 to July 1946. The college was one of James Forrestal 's favorite causes.
Despite being disbanded by Congress at the beginning of the Second World War, the College was reestablished in 1946 and renamed the National War College in recognition of the institution’s incorporation of students and faculty from across the nation’s intelligence network including the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department.
In October 1945 Admiral Harry W. Hill was appointed as the first Commandant of the National War College and tasked with establishing a College for the postwar joint education of the armed forces.
The National War College (NWC), formed in 1946, and the Army Industrial College, which was renamed the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF) in 1946 (becoming the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy in 2012), addressed that need.
The mission of the National War College is to educate future leaders of the Armed Forces, State Department, and other civilian agencies for high-level policy, command, and staff responsibilities.
On July 29, 1975, the Commandant of the National War College, Vice Admiral Bayne, was designated as the President of National Defense University (NDU) by the Secretary of Defense with the approval of President Gerald Ford.
The Army War College was reorganized as the Army-Navy Staff College in 1943, becoming the National War College in 1946 and the National Defense University in 1976. The post was renamed in 1948 to honor Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, commander of Army ground forces during World War II, who was headquartered at the post and killed in Normandy in 1944.
