Category: Simons Center News & Announcements

U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Ethics Symposium Announcement and Call for Papers Organizers: The United States Army Command and General Staff College, Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and the CGSC Foundation, Inc. will co-host a symposium entitled: “The Impact of Diverse Worldviews on Military Conflict” War is a clash of wills […]

United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Kevin M. Kennedy met with faculty and students in a professional development session Oct. 19, in Eisenhower Auditorium of the Lewis and Clark Center to discuss a variety of topics ranging from the current situation in Syria to various U.N. humanitarian and peacekeeping missions both past and present. More than 50 […]

On Oct. 12 more than 100 students, staff, and faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College gathered in the Arnold Conference Room to hear Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Intelligence Analyst Kenneth Hines lead a discussion on homegrown violent extremists (HVEs) and the threats within the United States. Hines’ reviewed the history of […]

Video of the Simons Center for Interagency Cooperation’s latest InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture is now available. Mr. Ralph M. Erwin, Senior Geospatial Intelligence Officer and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Liaison to the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command and the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, spoke on September 18. Erwin’s presentation was the second lecture for AY 2018 in […]

Yesterday afternoon, students, faculty, and staff of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College once again filled the Arnold Conference Room to attend an InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture. The subject of Monday’s lecture was the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Mr. Ralph M. Erwin, Senior Geospatial Intelligence Officer and NGA Liaison to the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command and […]

On Tuesday afternoon, over 100 students, staff, and faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC), as well other individuals from the surrounding area, packed into the Arnold Conference Room at CGSC’s Lewis and Clark Center to attend the inaugural lecture in CGSC’s Academic Year 2018 Interagency Brown-Bag Lecture Series. This is […]

The InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Series is returning for the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Academic Year 2018. The InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Series co-hosted by the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School (CGSS) and the Colonel Arthur D. Simons Center for Interagency Cooperation is an extracurricular, interagency topic-focused series that is designed to enhance and […]

Nearly 1,200 officers graduated from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Officer Course on June 9 at 9 a.m on the Fort Leavenworth main parade field.  The graduating class includes mid-career officers from all American military services as well as 110 international officers representing 85 countries and 15 federal government civilian employees. (See the […]

Mr. Terry Buckler, President of Chapter 29 of the U.S. Army Special Forces Association, visited the Simons Center on June 6. Chapter 29 is the Colonel Arthur D. “Bull” Simons Memorial Chapter of the Special Forces Association, and serves the greater Kansas City metropolitan area. Colonel Arthur “Bull” Simons led the Son Tay Raid, a rescue […]

A student from the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) has been featured in “Face of Defense,” a news feature that runs on the Defense Departments website each week. The article on Army Col. Oscar Doward Jr., commander of U.S. Army Central’s 2503rd Digital Liaison Detachment, was published on June 1, and highlighted Doward’s dissertation on […]