Our mission is

to educate and train qualified officers and NCOs whom the Turkish Armed Forces requires, who are loyal to their homeland, their nation, their state, and principles of democratic, secular and social law state, who are equipped with sense of duty, honour, loyalty, and responsibility; who adopt the principles and reforms of Atatürk, who are analytically-minded, well-equipped, and self-confident; and

to contribute to the scientific and cultural potential of Turkish Armed Forces and our country by providing research, publishing and consultancy in the fields of defence, strategy and science at national and international levels; to offer doctrinal solutions for military operational environment and development of military culture.

Our Vision is

to be one of the world’s leading defence universities, where highly qualified/professional officers and NCOs are educated and trained, leading in education and research especially in security and strategy fields, leading in change and development, and having international recognition and respectability.