On September 22 of this year, Colonel Christopher Distifeno, Military Attaché of the US Embassy in the Republic of Kazakhstan, visited the university.
During the visit, the first deputy head of the university, the head of the educational and methodological department, Colonel Ажибаев Талғат Жұманұлы, introduced the guest to the organizational and staff structure of the institution, the main tasks and perspectives of the development of the leading educational institution in the military field.
This year was marked by the entry of the first US officer who came to the National Defense University to study the Russian language intensively.
Russian language learning courses are organized at the request of foreign defense departments that want to send their officers to the National Defense University of the Republic of Kazakhstan for training in master's and doctoral programs.
After successfully mastering the Russian language, foreign officers enter a one-year course at the Master's program "Strategic Management in Military Affairs" of the Faculty of the Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
Today, the university has foreign graduates from countries such as the Republic of Korea, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the French Republic, the Republic of India and the People's Republic of China.