Ambassador (Ret.) Marcie Ries visited Fort Leavenworth and the University of St. Mary in Leavenworth, Kan., April 13-14, as part of the CGSC Foundation’s DACOR Visiting Professor of Diplomacy program. Ambassador Ries attended a dinner hosted and sponsored by Dr. Karenbeth Zacharias, the Director of the Lawrence D. Starr Global… Read More

Eight faculty members from CGSC’s Department of Joint, Interagency and Multinational Operations (DJIMO) took second place in “World Quest 2016,” an annual competition conducted by the International Relations Council – Kansas City. This year’s competition was April 14 at the University of Kansas Edwards Campus in Overland Park, Kan. The… Read More

The CGSC Foundation conducted an outreach event April 12, 2016, to inform/educate Kansas Citians on the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the CGSC Foundation. Foundation Trustees John Robinson and Steve Panknin were the hosts of the event conducted at the Mission Hills Country Club. Nearly 60 guests… Read More

The CGSC Foundation board of trustees came together March 30-31, 2016 for one of their two meetings this year. March 30 kicked off early in the morning with a meeting of the Simons Center Advisory Council led by Foundation CEO Doug Tystad and Rod Cox, the new program director of… Read More

Acting Secretary of the Army, Patrick J. Murphy, visited Kansas City on the evening of March 24, and met with a small group of KC business, community and veteran organization leaders in a gathering in the offices of Spencer Fane in downtown KC. The CGSC Foundation hosted the event along… Read More

Dr. Jim Willbanks, director of the CGSC Dept. of Military History, presented the first lecture in the Vietnam War Commemoration Lecture Series on March 23, 2016, at the Riverfront Community Center in downtown Leavenworth, Kansas. As part of this first lecture program, Col. Andrew Shoffner, Fort Leavenworth garrison commander, presented… Read More