{"id":141113,"date":"2024-03-21T17:46:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T00:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=141113"},"modified":"2024-03-21T17:46:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T00:46:18","slug":"state-minister-of-defence-enlightens-student-officers-of-dscsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/03\/21\/state-minister-of-defence-enlightens-student-officers-of-dscsc\/","title":{"rendered":"State Minister of Defence enlightens student officers of DSCSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Ministry of Defence \u00a0&#8211; Media Centre<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon addressed the student officers of Defence Services Command and Staff College (DSCSC) on Wednesday (Mar 20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Tennakoon enlightened the student officers of Course No 18 on \u2018Contemporary National Security Challenges of Sri Lanka and how best the armed forces be structured and prepared\u2019 after accepting an invitation of Commandant of DSCSC Maj. Gen. Lasantha Rodrigo. He captured the unhindered attention of the audience while shared his insightful knowledge on the topic at the &#8216;Dinners Club&#8217; which is an important event in the DSCSC&#8217;s course structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consequently, the State Minister took time off to interact with the Student Officers including foreign Student Officers and Instructors and shared his thoughts with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DSCSC officials including the Deputy Commandant and spouses of the Student Officers were also present at the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Defence \u00a0&#8211; Media Centre State Minister of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon addressed the student officers of Defence Services Command and Staff College (DSCSC) on Wednesday (Mar 20). Minister Tennakoon enlightened the student officers of Course No 18 on \u2018Contemporary National Security Challenges of Sri Lanka and how best the armed forces be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}