Simons Center News

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 […]

This week Navy Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, commander of U.S. Southern Command (Southcom), affirmed Southcom’s role in the “whole-of-hemisphere” approach to combating the Zika virus. Tidd spoke at a Council of the Americas forum on March 22, where he discussed the part Southcom and other U.S. agencies play in the fight against the virus. “Our […]

The State Department has announced the release of their 2016 Atrocities Prevention Report. The report describes the targeting of and attacks against civilians, including members of religious and ethnic groups in the Middle East and in Burma, and provides an overview of the U.S. government response to these attacks. The report acknowledges that there is no […]

On March 14, joint, interagency, and multinational sustainment experts gathered in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for Angkor Opening 2016. Angkor Opening is a weeklong tabletop exercise designed to build partnerships, interoperability, and readiness in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief port opening operations. Army Major General Edward F. Dorman III, commander of the 8th Theater Sustainment Command, […]

Earlier this month, Navy Admiral William E. Gortney, commander of U.S. Northern Command (Northcom) and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), spoke of the importance of homeland defense with the House Armed Services Committee. Gortney testified before the panel on budget requests, command operations, and whole-of-government and military-to-military cooperation. Gortney talked about threats to the […]