A new academic year begins, our work continues

● Mark Wiggins ● July 10, 2023 ● CEO Update ● No Comments

CGSC Foundation Alumni, Friends, and Supporters – Greetings from historic and beautiful Fort Leavenworth! Congratulations to the Class of 2023 and to the various award recipients. Welcome to the Class of 2024! Our Foundation is excited to have you here and welcomes you and your family to the “Best Hometown… Read More

ARNSF focuses on China – U.S. relations

● Mark Wiggins ● June 19, 2023 ● ARNSF Featured News Releases Simons Center News ● No Comments

The CGSC Foundation’s Simons Center hosted an Arter-Rowland National Security Forum luncheon event on June 15, 2023, at the Carriage Club in Kansas City. Simons Center Director Bob Ulin welcomed the ARNSF members, some of whom also introduced their guests and then introduced the guest speaker, Dr. Joseph G. D.… Read More

2023 Harris leadership award presented to Army doctor

● Mark Wiggins ● June 19, 2023 ● Featured News Releases School News ● No Comments

Major Sebastian Welsh, M.D., received the Lieutenant Colonel Boyd McCanna “Mac” Harris Leadership Award for the Command and General Staff Officer Course (CGSOC) Class of 2022 in a ceremony conducted in the Lewis and Clark Center on June 8. Welsh graduated with the class during a ceremony on June 9… Read More

Award for 2023 top SOF student goes to psyops officer

● Mark Wiggins ● June 19, 2023 ● Featured News Releases School News ● No Comments

Maj. Kent J. Gonzales received the LTC Ronald C. Ward Distinguished Special Operations Forces (SOF) Student Award for the Command and General Staff Officer Course (CGSOC) Class of 2023 in a ceremony June 7 at the Lewis and Clark Center. The award is presented to the distinguished SOF student graduate… Read More

InterAgency Journal 13-1

● Mark Wiggins ● June 16, 2023 ● Featured Simons Center News ● No Comments

The spring 2023 edition of the InterAgency Journal, is filled with articles covering a breadth of topics spanning from the current conflict in Ukraine, to Iraq, to educating interagency leaders. Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Robert Caslen, Simons Center Senior Research Fellow, leads off this edition challenging us to address the tough… Read More

DMNSF – July 19, 2023

● Mark Wiggins ● June 13, 2023 ● DMNSF Registration ● Comments Off

In this session of the Forum, retired Col. Bob Ulin will discuss the nuclear posture of NATO in Europe in the 1970s and recount how Soviet leadership mis-read the intent of an exercise that nearly led to nuclear war. At the height of the Cold War, both NATO and the… Read More

U.S. Army Command and General Staff College graduates June 9

● Mark Wiggins ● June 13, 2023 ● Featured News Releases School News ● 1 Comment

More than 1,050 officers graduated from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Officer Course June 9, 2023, at the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth. The graduating class includes mid-career officers from all American military services as well as 121 international officers representing 92 countries and 11 federal… Read More

Simons Center kicks off new national security forum in Des Moines

● Mark Wiggins ● June 5, 2023 ● Featured News Releases Simons Center News ● No Comments

The CGSC Foundation’s Simons Center initiated the Des Moines National Security Forum (DMNSF) May 25, 2023, with a luncheon event featuring a presentation by retired Colonel Matt Dimmick on the Ukraine-Russian War at the Des Moines Embassy Club in West Des Moines, Iowa. Simons Center Director Col. (Ret.) Bob Ulin… Read More

CGSOC Class of 2023 graduation – June 9

● Mark Wiggins ● June 2, 2023 ● Events Past Events ● 1 Comment

The Command and General Staff Officers Course (CGSOC) Class of 2023 graduation ceremony will be conducted June 9 at 9 a.m., in the Eisenhower Auditorium of the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth. The guest speaker is Gen. (Ret.) Robert B. Abrams, former commander of U.S. Forces Korea. The… Read More

SAMS graduates 111 ‘seed planters’

● Mark Wiggins ● May 31, 2023 ● Featured News Releases School News ● No Comments

The U.S. Army’s School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) Class of 2023 graduated at 9 a.m., May 25, in Eisenhower Auditorium at the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The class consisted of 95 students graduating from the Advanced Military Studies Program and 16 from the Advanced Strategic… Read More