Category: Foundation News
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 […]
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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 […]
... Read MoreWe 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 […]
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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,” […]
... Read More“The mind is the key to victory,” Lt. Gen. Gary H. Cheek told U.S. military and international officers, and civilians from U.S. federal agencies graduating from the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies on May 26 at 9 a.m. in the Eisenhower Auditorium of the Lewis and Clark Center. The 135 graduates include 14 […]
... Read MoreAmbassador (Ret.) Charles P. Ries visited the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth May 10-11, as part of the CGSC Foundation’s DACOR Visiting Professor of Diplomacy program. CGSC students were impressed with Ambassador Ries’ presence in their classrooms. “This was a great opportunity to pick the brain of someone ‘who’s been […]
... Read MoreDr. John Curatola, a professor of history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, presented “The Great War in the Air” in the Arnold Conference Room of the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth, May 11, at 6 p.m. His lecture was the seventh in a series of lectures […]
... Read MoreThe Command and General Staff College inducted the German Army chief of staff into its International Hall of Fame on May 9 at the Lewis and Clark Center. Lt. Gen. Jorg Vollmer began his military career in 1978 and became the German Army Chief of Staff in 2015. He is a 2002 graduate of the […]
... Read MoreArmy Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Harold G. Moore and Lt. Col. Boyd M. (Mac) Harris, deceased, were inducted into the Fort Leavenworth Hall of Fame in ceremonies at the Lewis and Clark Center on May 3. Plaques representing each of the Hall’s more than 100 members are displayed in the Lewis and Clark Center Atrium. The […]
... Read MoreOn Friday, April 29, 2016, Lt. Gen. Robert Brown, commanding general of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth and CGSC commandant, gave his final farewell speech to the students attending the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Brown received Senate confirmation for his four-star promotion April 28. He relinquished command within […]
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