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Featured article: Fundamentally Restructuring Interagency Operations for Future Success by Ryan Hilger “The whole thing was uncoordinated and did not get us very far. The upshot is that in the ninth year of the war we are starting from scratch.” – Ambassador Richard Holbrook Ambassador Holbrooke’s lighthearted comments about the ongoing stabilization and reconstruction operations […]
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CGSC Foundation President/CEO Rod Cox, along with Col. Scott Green, director of CGSC’s Department of Army Tactics, led the Kansas City Chiefs Ambassadors on a tour of historic Fort Leavenworth and the Lewis and Clark Center, home of CGSC, on April 18. The group visited the Buffalo Soldier Monument, the Berlin Wall sections, historic homes […]
... Read More“The Great War in East Asia” was the topic of the evening as Dr. Joseph G.D. (Geoff) Babb presented the latest, and last of AY 2019, lecture in the General of the Armies John J. Pershing Great War Centennial Series at the Riverfront Community Center in downtown Leavenworth, Kan. on Apr. 10. Babb, an Associate Professor of […]
... Read MoreOn April 17, the CGSC Foundation co-sponsored with AAFES a book signing at the Lewis and Clark Center bookstore with Lt. Col. David Oakley, an assistant professor at the National Defense University and author of Subordinating Intelligence: The CIA/DoD Post-Cold War Relationship. Oakley is a graduate of the 2012 class of the Command and General […]
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Featured article: The National Security Council Deputies Committee Engine of the Policy Process by Mark Wilcox “They are a hugely influential group of public officials that most of the public knows very little about. ” -John Norris, CEO of the Enough Project Action by the agencies of the United States government at the operational and tactical […]
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Featured article: Lessons on Collaboration from Recent Conflicts: The Whole-of-Nation and Whole-of-Government Approaches in Action by Brett Doyle Attempts to bring peace and stability in conflict plagued areas have dominated the foreign policy of the United States. In the era of globalization, however, the U.S. is only a single player in an increasingly complex “maze” of organizations […]
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The Mr. Kevin Rousseau, the CGSC Distinguished Chair for National Intelligence Studies and a member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), provided insight into the CIA in the latest presentation of the InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Series on April 3, in the in the Arnold Conference Room of the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth. […]
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Featured article: Assessing the Impact of American and Chinese Economic Competition in Sub-Saharan Africa by James Jacobs and Kevin Boldt In 2015, Scientific American published an article which showcased how the continent of Africa is often sized on Mercator maps, in a similar fashion, to the island of Greenland, even though Africa is 14 times larger than […]
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Featured article: Interagency Approaches to Prevent the Reoccurrence of Conflict in Sierra Leone by Phillip J. Schenks, Mary C. Avriette and Jonathan M. Holliday Countries which experience one civil war are more likely to experience another. Recurrent civil wars impair economic investment and divert government funds from governance to security. The result of conflict-related resource […]
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Featured article: Lifting the Interagency Fog of Information: Blockchain Information-Sharing and Radical Inclusion by James Torrence The fog of information can drive out knowledge. –Daniel J. Boorstin In “Radical Inclusion,” General Martin Dempsey and Ori Brafman offer current and aspiring leaders extraordinary insights into getting the best possible information for decision making as well as how […]
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