Category: Foundation News

Two highly decorated military officers that graduated from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College were honored, April 26, 2016. Gen. Rajendra Chhetri of Nepal and Maj. Gen. Ravinder Singh of Singapore were inducted into the International Hall of Fame during a ceremony in the Eisenhower Auditorium at the Lewis and Clark Center. Lt. […]

The 2016 Fort Leavenworth Ethics Symposium, cohosted by the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the CGSC Foundation, was conducted April 19-21, at the Lewis and Clark Center and the Frontier Conference Center on Fort Leavenworth. The theme of this year’s symposium “The Ethics of Humanitarian Military Operations and Intervention” was intended to […]

Ambassador (Ret.) Marcie Ries visited Fort Leavenworth and the University of St. Mary in Leavenworth, Kan., April 13-14, as part of the CGSC Foundation’s DACOR Visiting Professor of Diplomacy program. Ambassador Ries attended a dinner hosted and sponsored by Dr. Karenbeth Zacharias, the Director of the Lawrence D. Starr Global Studies Institute and Assistant Professor […]

Eight faculty members from CGSC’s Department of Joint, Interagency and Multinational Operations (DJIMO) took second place in “World Quest 2016,” an annual competition conducted by the International Relations Council – Kansas City. This year’s competition was April 14 at the University of Kansas Edwards Campus in Overland Park, Kan. The CGSC Foundation is a member […]

CGSC Foundation CEO Doug Tystad announced the hire of a new program director for the Simons Center this week. – Col. (Ret.) Rod Cox assumed duties of the position on March 28. “Rod has a distinguished record of service in both military operational positions as well as interagency positions,” Tystad said. “I believe that Rod […]

Acting Secretary of the Army, Patrick J. Murphy, visited Kansas City on the evening of March 24, and met with a small group of KC business, community and veteran organization leaders in a gathering in the offices of Spencer Fane in downtown KC. The CGSC Foundation hosted the event along with Spencer Fane and the […]

Emerging leaders from Citizens Bank & Trust in their Kansas City North branch visited the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College March 24 as part of the CGSC Foundation’s outreach programs. Foundation CEO Doug Tystad led the group of 12 around the Lewis and Clark Center, home of CGSC, and spoke to them about […]

Dr. Jim Willbanks, director of the CGSC Dept. of Military History, presented the first lecture in the Vietnam War Commemoration Lecture Series on March 23, 2016, at the Riverfront Community Center in downtown Leavenworth, Kansas. As part of this first lecture program, Col. Andrew Shoffner, Fort Leavenworth garrison commander, presented each Vietnam veteran present with […]

The U.S. Army Command and General Staff College’s School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) and the CGSC Foundation cohosted a National Security Roundtable program March 8-9, 2016 at the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Participating in this NSRT program were 16 business leaders from varied industries and professions, including banking and financial […]

As part of an on-going series of lectures intended to educate the public about World War I during its 100-year commemoration, Dr. Richard Faulkner, a professor of history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, presented “Verdun: The Bleeding of Nations” in the Arnold Conference Room of the Lewis and […]