Ambassador McCarthy returns as DACOR Visiting Professor

● Elizabeth Hill ● April 23, 2018 ● Featured News Releases School News Simons Center News ● No Comments

Retired Ambassador Deborah McCarthy returned for a second visit to Fort Leavenworth in April, again serving as the DACOR visiting professor of diplomacy for the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) Class of 2018. McCarthy, who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania from 2013 to 2016, visited… Read More

Local video production company tours Fort Leavenworth, CGSC

● Mark Wiggins ● April 19, 2018 ● Featured News Releases Walk and Talk Program ● No Comments

Leadership of Kansas City-based video production company “Wide Awake Films” visited Fort Leavenworth on April 12 for a “walk and talk” tour of Fort Leavenworth and the Command and General Staff College. The company participated in the Foundation’s “Walk and Talk” program on the recommendation of Foundation trustee Mary O’Connor.… Read More

‘Last throw of the iron dice’ lecture presented at WWI Museum

● Mark Wiggins ● April 18, 2018 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

Dr. Scott Stephenson from the CGSC Department of Military History presented his lecture “The Last Throw of the Iron Dice: The Ludendorff Offensives of 1918” on April 17 at 6:30 p.m. at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in downtown Kansas City. Stephenson first presented this lecture March… Read More

Army Secretary appoints Foundation Chair Mike Hockley as CASA

● Mark Wiggins ● April 18, 2018 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

Secretary of the Army Dr. Mark T. Esper hosted a ceremony April 16, 2018, to swear in the newest class of appointed CASAs during the “Civilian Aides to the Secretary of the Army Investiture Ceremony” at the Hall of Heroes inside the Pentagon, Washington D.C. Hockley assumes the CASA position… Read More

Career Minister Gottlieb joins Distinguished Speaker Series

● Elizabeth Hill ● April 16, 2018 ● Featured News Releases Simons Center News ● No Comments

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 endowed position as the Irwin H. Rosenberg Professor in Nutrition… Read More

Amb. Moon returns to Fort Leavenworth

● Elizabeth Hill ● April 12, 2018 ● Featured News Releases Simons Center News ● No Comments

Retired Ambassador Patrick S. Moon returned to the Fort Leavenworth area in early April of this year, where he again took part in the Simons Center’s Distinguished Speakers Series. Ambassador Moon, who served as the the U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2010 to 2013, visited Fort Leavenworth April… Read More

SAMS leads spring NSRT program

● Mark Wiggins ● April 6, 2018 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

The U.S. Army Command and General Staff College’s School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) and the CGSC Foundation cohosted a National Security Roundtable (NSRT) program April 3-4, 2018 at the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Eighteen civilian business and academic professionals were the guests of this NSRT… Read More

Ambassadors discuss country teams in InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture

● Mark Wiggins ● April 6, 2018 ● Featured News Releases Simons Center News ● No Comments

Retired Ambassadors David Lambertson and Patrick Moon gave the latest presentation in the InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Series, entitled “Ambassadorial Expectations and Country Team Operations” on April 3. During their presentation Ambassadors Lambertson and Moon shared their experiences on Embassy Country Teams and discussed an ambassador’s expectations of U.S. personnel and… Read More

British visit CGSC for Eagle Owl exercise

● Mark Wiggins ● March 28, 2018 ● Featured News Releases School News ● No Comments

(Army University Public Affairs) The U.S. Army Command and General Staff College hosted 200 officers from the United Kingdom’s Intermediate Command and Staff College (Land) March 2-16 to study with their U.S. counterparts. Exercise Eagle Owl occurs twice a year and culminates in the two-week exercise where a combined group… Read More

New TRADOC commander visits Fort Leavenworth

● Mark Wiggins ● March 28, 2018 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

Gen. Stephen Townsend, the new commanding general of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, visited the Combined Arms Center Training Innovation Facility March 15. He was accompanied by Maj. Gen. Maria Gervais, deputy commanding general, Combined Arms Center-Training. Townsend assumed command of TRADOC on March 2 from Gen. David Perkins,… Read More