Wilburn “Bud” Meador – retired Marine, Vietnam veteran, professor of history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the faculty advisor to the CGSC Foundation – was recently interviewed by Leawood Lifestyle, a magazine published for residents of the Kansas City suburb of Leawood. The magazine’s July… Read More

Maj. April M.K. Moore received the LTC Ronald C. Ward Distinguished Special Operations Forces Student Award for the Command and General Staff Officer Course (CGSOC) Class of 2016 in a ceremony June 9. Maj. Moore is a civil affairs officer in the U.S. Army. The award is presented to the… Read More

U.S. Air Force Major Bishane A. Whitmore graduated from the Command and General Staff Officers Course of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College on June 10, as one of 1,300 students. He was also one of only 139 members of the class recognized for obtaining a Masters of… Read More

Approximately 1,300 officers graduated June 10 at 9 a.m. from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Officer Course in a ceremony on the Main Parade Field on Fort Leavenworth. The 2016 graduating class was comprised of 1,307 students: 879 from the active U.S. Army; 50 – National Guard; 98… Read More

International military students, received the Command and General Staff College International Officer Graduate Badge during a ceremony June 9, 2016, in the Eisenhower Auditorium at the post’s Lewis and Clark Center. In the 2016 CGSC graduating class, there were 109 international officers representing 90 countries. The tradition of presenting international… Read More

When the American Revolution broke out, the rebellious colonies did not possess an army in the modern sense. Rather, the revolutionaries fielded an amateur force of colonial troops, cobbled together from various New England militia companies.  They had no unified chain of command, and although Artemas Ward of Massachusetts exercised… Read More