Its mission is to train active and reserve officers and the promotion of scientific and technological research.
[2] On July 27, 1967, President Modibo Keita visited the School, who called its personnel "the most conscious and most dynamic forward force".
[5] In a speech on August 1, 2008 at a ceremony at the school, then-President Amadou Toumani Toure formulated this new mission as follows: “The duty of the army is to fight, and the main mission is, above all, to support peace".
[6] A section of the European Union Training Mission in Mali is based at the school.
[7] Since 1993, military personnel from 12 African countries have been training in it: Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, Guinea, Mauritania, Niger, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Chad and Togo.