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Career Minister Gottlieb joins Distinguished Speaker Series
Posted: April 16, 2018 by the Simons Center
Retired Career Minister Gregory Gottlieb, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), recently visited Fort Leavenworth as part of the Simons Center’s Distinguished Speakers Series. Gottlieb is the Director of the Feinstein International Center of Tufts University, and also holds the... Read More
Actions in Middle East are focus of next Great War lecture
Posted: April 12, 2018 by the Simons Center
The Department of Military History of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the CGSC Foundation at Fort Leavenworth invite the public to attend the 15th in a series of lectures intended to educate the public about World... Read More
Featured Article: The Syrian Refugee Crisis…
Posted: March 28, 2018 by the Simons Center
Featured article: The Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Moral and Ethical Obligation of Resettlement or “I’ll Pass on the Poisoned Skittles” by Joel D. Funk What are the relationships between the migration of refugees and conflict? The conventional logic presumes that... Read More
Featured Article: Partnering to End Corruption…
Posted: March 21, 2018 by the Simons Center
Featured article: Partnering to End Corruption through Security Cooperation and Defense Institution Building by Adam J. Bushey Corruption damages a mission’s operational effectiveness and credibility and is “a key inhibitor of stability… is often a key cause of conflict… and erodes the... Read More
CGSS hosts interagency course for true interagency audience
Posted: March 20, 2018 by the Simons Center
The U.S. Army Command and Staff School (CGSS), Fort Belvoir, Virginia Satellite Campus, recently concluded its elective course on Interagency and National Security Coordination to a true interagency audience. The five-week course began in January 2018 and ended at the... Read More
Featured Article: Counterterrorism Response Force Requirement
Posted: March 14, 2018 by the Simons Center
Featured article: U.S. Northern Command Counterterrorism Response Force Requirement by Matthew D. Bartels Nassim Nicholas Taleb introduced the theory of a “Black Swan” event in 2007. It is described “as an event in human history that was unprecedented and unexpected at... Read More
News You Can Use: 03/06/18
Posted: March 6, 2018 by the Simons Center
National Security Talk About Extremists, But Don’t Politicize the Debate, Defense One After reports of chemical attacks, White House considers new military action against Syrian regime, The Washington Post Senator James Risch Explains His Warning About 'Biblical' Conflict With North... Read More
Defense, intelligence communities partner for space defense
Posted: February 21, 2018 by the Simons Center
The National Space Defense Center (NSDC) at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, is now operating 24 hours a day with a staff of 230. The NSDC began as a concept in late 2015 with the establishment of the Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations... Read More
Cyberspace and the Gray Zone
Posted: February 15, 2018 by the Simons Center
March 5, 2018 - March 8, 2018 U.S. Cyber Command will host its fifth annual legal conference at the Jacob E. Smart Conference Center on Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, from March 5 through 8, 2018. This year the conference is... Read More
American Army of Occupation is topic of next WWI lecture – Feb. 26
Posted: February 14, 2018 by the Simons Center
UPDATE: This was rescheduled from Feb. 6 due to bad weather. The Department of Military History of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the CGSC Foundation at Fort Leavenworth invite the public to attend the 18th in... Read More
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