Category: Foundation News

The 2017 class of international officers at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College were hosted at a breakfast and provided a tour by leadership of Kansas City’s Faultless Starch/Bon Ami Company, July 19. The IOs were welcomed by, Faultless Starch’s Director of Health and Wellness Tricia Beaham. Ms. Beaham is the wife of […]

Lindsey Foat and Taylor Hersh from the local Public Broadcasting System (PBS) channel, Kansas City Public Television (KCPT), visited Fort Leavenworth and the Command and General Staff College on June 30, to learn more about the post, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the CGSC Foundation. The CGSC Foundation conducts this “walk […]

Wilburn “Bud” Meador – retired Marine, Vietnam veteran, professor of history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the faculty advisor to the CGSC Foundation – was recently interviewed by Leawood Lifestyle, a magazine published for residents of the Kansas City suburb of Leawood. The magazine’s July edition had a focus on […]

Maj. April M.K. Moore received the LTC Ronald C. Ward Distinguished Special Operations Forces Student Award for the Command and General Staff Officer Course (CGSOC) Class of 2016 in a ceremony June 9. Maj. Moore is a civil affairs officer in the U.S. Army. The award is presented to the top Special Operations Forces (SOF) […]

U.S. Air Force Major Bishane A. Whitmore graduated from the Command and General Staff Officers Course of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College on June 10, as one of 1,300 students. He was also one of only 139 members of the class recognized for obtaining a Masters of Military Art and Science (MMAS). […]

The 2016 graduating class was comprised of 1,307 students: 879 from the active U.S. Army; 50 – National Guard; 98 – U.S. Army Reserve; 87 – U.S. Air Force; 45 – U.S. Navy; 28 – U.S. Marine Corps; two from the U.S. Coast Guard; 109 international officers representing 90 countries; and nine from other U.S. […]

International military students, received the Command and General Staff College International Officer Graduate Badge during a ceremony June 9, 2016, in the Eisenhower Auditorium at the post’s Lewis and Clark Center. In the 2016 CGSC graduating class, there were 109 international officers representing 90 countries. The tradition of presenting international military students with a badge […]

When the American Revolution broke out, the rebellious colonies did not possess an army in the modern sense. Rather, the revolutionaries fielded an amateur force of colonial troops, cobbled together from various New England militia companies. They had no unified chain of command, and although Artemas Ward of Massachusetts exercised authority by informal agreement, officers […]

We congratulate the graduating CGSC classes – SAMS and CGSOC – and wish them well as they head out to provide leadership for our Army and the nation. In this edition of the Foundation News we continue our “CGSC 101” series that highlights the various teaching departments at the College with a feature on the […]

In spring 2016, the Simons Center began seeking to publish more of the scholarship being produced here at the Command and General Staff College by both faculty and students. “Much very good, and thoughtful work in many subject areas is being produced and discussed here at Fort Leavenworth, the intellectual center of the U.S. Army,” […]