‘Hands, Head, and Heart’ vital to effective leadership

Dr. Ted Thomas, the director of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College’s (CGSC) Department of Command and Leadership, led the tenth and final presentation for academic year 2018 of the InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Series on June 6. Dr. Thomas, discussed how leading in an interagency-dominated contemporary environment requires… Read More

K-State professor guest lectures at CGSC

● Elizabeth Hill ● June 4, 2018 ● Featured News Releases Simons Center News ● No Comments

Dr. David A. Graff, professor of history at Kansas State University, recently guest lectured at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC). On May 31, Dr. Graff spoke on Chinese military history at an elective course in the Department of Military History. According to Department of Military History… Read More

Space domain topic of InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture

● Elizabeth Hill ● May 9, 2018 ● Featured News Releases Simons Center News ● No Comments

Mr. Thomas A. Gray, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Liaison to the Combined Arms Center and Army University, spoke at the latest InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture at U.S. Army Command and General Staff College on May 8. His presentation was entitled “The Domain of Space and National Security.”… Read More

New Simons Center ‘Special Report’ published online May 1

● mhwiggins ● May 2, 2018 ● News Releases Simons Center News ● No Comments

On May 1, 2018, the CGSC Foundation’s Simons Center for Interagency Cooperation published a selection of the papers submitted for the 2017 Fort Leavenworth Ethics Symposium as a Simons Center “Special Report.” – Click the cover below to visit the Simons Center site and download the report. Visit the 2017… Read More

State Surgeon of Kansas presents on modern epidemics

● Elizabeth Hill ● April 24, 2018 ● Featured News Releases School News Simons Center News ● 1 Comment

Dr. Lee A. Norman, the State Surgeon of Kansas, presented a lecture entitled “Modern Epidemics: Why they occur and why we should worry!” on Monday, April 23 in the Arnold Conference Room in the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth. Dr. Norman spoke about public health issues the world… Read More

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

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

Ambassadors discuss country teams in InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture

● mhwiggins ● 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

InterAgency Journal 9-1

● mhwiggins ● March 16, 2018 ● Featured Simons Center News ● No Comments

This issue of the InterAgency Journal features writings on homeland security, how to deal with corruption in overseas security operations, dealing with refugees, and interagency leadership. The last article authored by a group of CGSC West African Scholars discusses a framework for economic cooperation in West Africa. This issue also… Read More

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