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Autonomous Narrative Warfare: Engaging Agentic AI Within the Cognitive Battlespace Cognition is becoming a focal domain of strategic competition of the twenty-first century battlespace.

General Dan Caine, 22nd Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, emphasized this important point to the NDU Class of 2026 during the graduation ceremony at Fort Lesley J. McNair.

NDUF is proud to support the National Defense University in its 50th Anniversary year.

Words that define NDU’s mission, delivered by VADM Peter A. Garvin, 18th President of National Defense University, during his remarks at the NDU Graduation Ceremony 2026.

NDUF is proud to support the National Defense University in its 50th Anniversary year.

Norfolk, Virginia. The final ceremony. The Class of 2026 is complete.

Today at NSA Hampton Roads, the Joint Advanced Warfighting School graduates its cohort, closing out NDU's 50th Anniversary graduation season. JAWS represents the most operationally focused graduate program within the Joint Forces Staff College system, developing officers who are prepared to plan and execute at the highest levels of joint warfighting. That preparation ends here. The mission begins now.

NDU Foundation proudly congratulates the JAWS Class of 2026. Three ceremonies. Three locations. One graduating class that carries fifty years of strategic excellence into the commands, assignments, and decisions that will define the next era of American national security.

Class of 2026, the Foundation honors every one of you.

Strategy without resources is theory. The Eisenhower School Class of 2026 graduates knowing the difference.

A year of industrial immersion across 19 sectors, 500 site visits, and engagements spanning 20 nations has equipped this cohort with something no classroom alone can deliver: a ground-level understanding of the industrial systems that make American military power executable. They leave Fort Lesley J. McNair today as leaders who can connect national security ambition to the resources, industries, and decisions required to sustain it.

NDU Foundation congratulates the Eisenhower School Class of 2026. In NDU's 50th Anniversary year, your graduation represents 102 years of resource strategy excellence carried forward.

Cyberspace does not wait. Neither do the leaders trained to defend it.

Today at Fort Bragg, the College of Information and Cyberspace Class of 2026 graduates into a domain that is contested every single day. This cohort spent a year developing the strategic understanding, operational fluency, and intellectual edge required to lead in an environment where the next significant threat to national security may arrive not on a battlefield but across a network.

NDU Foundation proudly congratulates the CIC Class of 2026. Graduating during NDU's 50th Anniversary year, these leaders carry forward a mission that grows more critical with every passing year. The domain is yours to defend.

Since 1946, the National War College has produced the strategists who lead America through its most consequential moments. Today, that lineage grows.

Congratulations to the National War College Class of 2026, graduating during NDU's 50th Anniversary year at Fort Lesley J. McNair. The seminars are behind you. The strategy you developed, the judgment you sharpened, and the networks you built over this past year now belong to the nation. The commands, the policy rooms, and the decisions that will shape American security in the years ahead are yours to lead.

NDU Foundation is proud to have supported the institution that produced you. Well done, NWC Class of 2026.

Security does not stop at borders. Neither does the reach of a CISA graduate.

The College of International Security Affairs Class of 2026 graduates today at Fort Lesley J. McNair having spent a year studying the regional conflicts, partner nation dynamics, counterterrorism challenges, and alliance relationships that define the international security landscape. They leave as leaders who understand that America's strategic advantage is inseparable from the strength of the partnerships that support it.

NDU Foundation congratulates the CISA Class of 2026, graduating in NDU's 50th Anniversary year. From Washington to allied capitals, your perspective will matter.

NDU's graduation season concludes where joint warfighting excellence lives.

Friday, June 12th, the Joint Advanced Warfighting School graduates its Class of 2026 at NSA Hampton Roads, Norfolk, Virginia. JAWS represents the apex of joint operational education within the JFSC system, developing officers who think and operate at the highest levels of joint warfighting. Graduating during NDU's 50th Anniversary year, this cohort carries that standard forward at a moment when the demands on joint military leadership have never been greater.

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