Kansas Department of Transportation leaders visit Fort Leavenworth

● Mark Wiggins ● December 19, 2017 ● Featured News Releases Walk and Talk Program ● No Comments

On Dec. 14 the CGSC Foundation hosted Kansas Secretary of Transportation Richard Carlson and Merrill Atwater, who is the director of Aviation at KDOT and also the great grandson of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, on a “Walk and Talk” tour of Fort Leavenworth and CGSC. As Carlson and Atwater… Read More

KC Federal Executive Board topic of latest InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture

● Mark Wiggins ● December 12, 2017 ● Featured News Releases Simons Center News ● No Comments

Mr. Larry A. Hisle, executive director of the Greater Kansas City Federal Executive Board (FEB), conducted a presentation on the FEB in the latest InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Dec. 12, in the Arnold Conference Room of the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth. During his presentation, Hisle discussed the role… Read More

Willbanks addresses CORDS in latest Vietnam lecture

● Mark Wiggins ● December 11, 2017 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

In the ninth lecture of the Vietnam War Commemoration Lecture series conducted Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. in the Stove Factory Ballroom in downtown Leavenworth, Kansas, Dr, James H. Willbanks, General of the Army George C. Marshall Chair of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College,… Read More

Leavenworth School District underwriters participate in Walk and Talk program

● Mark Wiggins ● December 11, 2017 ● Featured News Releases Walk and Talk Program ● No Comments

On Dec. 7, CGSC Foundation CEO Doug Tystad received a short notice request from the Leavenworth School District chief financial officer to host a “walk and talk” visit of Fort Leavenworth and CGSC for three insurance underwriters who were visiting USD 453. Vice President Andy Carter and Jessica Gooch from… Read More

Ambassador McCarthy visits Fort Leavenworth

● Mark Wiggins ● December 8, 2017 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

As part of the CGSC Foundation / Simons Center’s Distinguished Speaker Series, Ambassador (Ret.) Deborah A. McCarthy visited Fort Leavenworth Dec. 5-7, as this year’s DACOR Visiting Professor of Diplomacy. During her visit Ambassador McCarthy met with students and faculty of the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), students and… Read More

InterAgency Journal 8-4

● Mark Wiggins ● December 6, 2017 ● Featured Simons Center News ● No Comments

This issue of the InterAgency Journal features writings on ethics, leadership, strategic communications, educating, and the world order. – The lead article by Erik Jens provides an insider’s perspective, using historical analysis, on the ethics of interrogation. Another article, authored by William Davis, is an excerpt from the interagency leadership… Read More

Call for Papers: 2018 Ethics Symposium

● Mark Wiggins ● November 28, 2017 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

The 2018 Fort Leavenworth Ethics Symposium will be conducted April 30-May 1, 2018. This year’s theme is: The Impact of Diverse Worldviews on Military Conflict CGSC is issuing a call for unpublished papers for the symposium. Authors are invited to submit 300-500 word extracts of their papers for consideration. CGSC… Read More

Kansas City Public Library leaders tour CGSC, Fort Leavenworth

● Mark Wiggins ● November 22, 2017 ● Featured News Releases Walk and Talk Program ● No Comments

On Nov. 13, Crosby Kemper, the executive director of the Kansas City Library, and Carrie Coogan, the library’s deputy director of public affairs, joined the CGSC Foundation for a walk and talk tour of CGSC and Fort Leavenworth. The tour began with a drive by all the beautiful historic homes… Read More

Russian Revolutions subject of latest WWI lecture

● Mark Wiggins ● November 22, 2017 ● Featured News Releases School News ● No Comments

Dr.’s Sean Kalic and Gates Brown presented their lecture on “The Russian Revolutions” as part of the General of the Armies John J. Pershing Great War Centennial Series on Nov. 15, at the Stove Factory Ballroom in downtown Leavenworth. Kalic and Brown published Russian Revolution of 1917: The Essential Reference… Read More

Former Commandant Lt. Gen. John H. Cushman dies at 96

● Mark Wiggins ● November 16, 2017 ● Featured News Releases ● 1 Comment

Former CGSC Commandant Lt. Gen. John H. Cushman died Nov. 8 at 96 in a retirement facility in Washington, D.C. According to reports, his son, John H. Cushman Jr., said the cause was a stroke. Cushman’s father was an Army brigadier general and he followed in his father’s footsteps, graduating… Read More