CGSOC Class of 2021 graduates in virtual ceremony

● Mark Wiggins ● June 18, 2021 ● Featured News Releases School News ● 1 Comment

On June 18, 2021 the CGSOC Class of 2021 at Fort Leavenworth graduated with a virtual ceremony posted on the Army University and CGSC Youtube pages at 9 a.m. Gen. James McConville, 40th Chief of Staff of the Army, addressed the class. There were 1,078 graduates, with 36 of them… Read More

CGSOC Class of 2021 international officers receive badges

● Mark Wiggins ● June 18, 2021 ● Featured News Releases School News ● 1 Comment

International military students in the CGSOC Class of 2021, received the Command and General Staff College International Officer Graduate Badge during a ceremony June 17, 2021, in the Eisenhower Auditorium at the post’s Lewis and Clark Center. In the 2021 CGSOC graduating class, there were 45 international officers representing 43… Read More

Lt. Gen. Martin assumes command of CAC

● Mark Wiggins ● June 9, 2021 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

Lt. Gen. Theodore Martin assumed command of Fort Leavenworth and the Combined Arms Center in a ceremony May 28, 2021 at the Frontier Conference Center. Martin took command from Lt. Gen. James Rainey who had served as commander since Dec. 16, 2019. Rainey’s next assignment is as the Army G3,… Read More

SAMS graduates in virtual ceremony

● Mark Wiggins ● June 9, 2021 ● Featured News Releases School News ● No Comments

The School of Advanced Military Studies conducted a virtual graduation ceremony that was posted on the Army University YouTube and Facebook pages on May 27. The graduating class was comprised of 155 students – 16 from the Advanced Strategic Leader Studies Program (ASLSP) and 139 from the Advanced Military Studies… Read More

Partner Spotlight – Brownells

● Mark Wiggins ● June 4, 2021 ● News Releases Partner Spotlight ● No Comments

Brownells, headquartered in Grinnell, Iowa, is selected as the CGSC Foundation Corporate Partner of the Month. Brownells has supported the CGSC Foundation in numerous ways, including sponsorship for the Distinguished Leadership Award, and most recently the Simons Center National Security Forum conducted in Des Moines, Iowa, in May 2021. “Brownell’s… Read More

Fort Leavenworth inducts Hall of Fame members

● Mark Wiggins ● June 2, 2021 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

Fort Leavenworth inducted four new members to its Hall of Fame on May 20, 2021, at the Lewis and Clark Center. This year’s inductees were Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, Brig. Gen. Elizabeth P. Hoisington, Brig. Gen. Sherian G. Cadoria, and Mrs. Elizabeth Schenck Smith. The three women are the first… Read More

Putting the ‘memorial’ back in Memorial Day

● Mark Wiggins ● May 26, 2021 ● News Releases ● No Comments

Abraham Lincoln asked the nation in his Gettysburg Address 158 years ago “to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly… Read More

Simons Center National Security Forum focuses on human trafficking

● Mark Wiggins ● May 25, 2021 ● Featured News Releases Simons Center News ● No Comments

The inaugural presentation of the Simons Center National Security Forum was conducted May 20, 2021, in a luncheon event at the Des Moines Embassy Club West (520 Market St., West Des Moines, Iowa 50266). In this presentation of the forum, Lt. Col. John J. Nelson, U.S. Army Retired, chief executive… Read More

CGSS faculty member selected as Fulbright Scholar

● Mark Wiggins ● May 25, 2021 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

Professor Robert D. Spessert, JD, assistant professor in the U.S. Army University’s Command and General Staff School at Fort Gordon, Ga., has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Hungary. Spessert will lecture at National University of Public Service in Budapest, with duties in the Faculty of Military Sciences… Read More

CGSC Professor Emeritus Dr. James H. Willbanks presents Vietnam lecture

● Mark Wiggins ● May 18, 2021 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

The 13th lecture in the Vietnam War Commemoration Lecture Series was conducted May 13, 2021 at June’s Northland in downtown Leavenworth, Kansas (614 Pottawatomie St.). During this 13th lecture of the series guests enjoyed a reception and buffet dinner while Dr. James H. Willbanks, Professor Emeritus and former General of… Read More