Category: Foundation News

The CGSC Foundation has completed its search for a new President/Chief Executive Officer this fall with the selection of retired Army Colonel Roderick M. Cox. Cox has served as the program director of the CGSC Foundation’s Simons Center since March 2016. The Foundation’s search began in April this year after current President/CEO, Doug Tystad, announced […]

General (Ret.) Ann Dunwoody address the CGSC Class of 2019 on Aug. 28 in the Eisenhower Auditorium of the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth. Dunwoody’s presentation entitled “Stewarding the Profession of Arms” served as the Class of 2019’s introduction to ethics. Gen. Dunwoody served more than 37 years in the U.S. Army. Her […]

On August 23, 2018, Dr. Richard S. Faulkner, William A. Stofft Professor and Chair of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, presented “Into the Crucible: The AEF in Battle September-November 1918,” at the Stove Factory Ballroom in downtown Leavenworth, Kansas. In his presentation, Faulkner explored the challenges that the American […]

Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, U.S. Army, Ret., the former commander of U.S. Central Command, presented the annual General Colin L. Powell Lecture for students of the 2019 Command and General Staff Officer’s Course, Aug. 21 at Fort Leavenworth’s Lewis and Clark Center. Austin shared three things with the students — the evolution of the […]

More than 1,100 officers graduated from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Officer Course on June 15 at 9 a.m on the Main Parade Field. The graduating class includes mid-career officers from all American military services as well as 119 international officers representing 91 countries and 24 federal government civilian employees. The Army Vice […]

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had the honor of hosting the historic U.S. – North Korea summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 11, 2018. Prime Minister Loong is a graduate of the CGSC Class of 1978 and a 2009 inductee into CGSC’s International Hall of […]

(ArmyU Public Affairs) In preparation for the Command and General Staff College graduation on June 15, international military students received their International Graduate Badges in a ceremony June 14, 2018, at the Lewis and Clark Center. Netherlands Major Rene Berendsen, International Military Student Chief of Staff for the Command and General Staff Officers Course Class […]

The 2018 classes of SAMS and CGSOC are nearing completion of their academic year. – We wish them well as they head back into the operating forces to put their knowledge and skills back to the test. In this edition we continue our “CGSC 101” series that highlights the College’s teaching departments and schools with […]

Dr. David A. Graff, professor of history at Kansas State University, recently guest lectured at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC). On May 31, Dr. Graff spoke on Chinese military history at an elective course in the Department of Military History. According to Department of Military History instructor Dr. Geoff Babb, Dr. Graff […]

On May 9, 2018, Brian L. Steed, a retired lieutenant colonel, former faculty member of CGSC’s Department of Military History and and U.S. Army Middle East Foreign Area Officer, presented “Armageddon, Arabia, and the Modern Middle East,” at the Stove Factory Ballroom in downtown Leavenworth, Kansas. Steed’s lecture was the 15th in the General of […]