After nearly two years of research, letter writing campaigns, visits to Congress and phone calls, the Command and General Staff College Foundation has finally succeeded in shepherding the “5-Star General Commemorative Coin Act” through the House and the Senate with the requisite number of cosponsors. The President signed the bill into law on October 8, 2010.

The Command and General Staff College Foundation has the good fortune to continue its strategic partnership with Flint Hills Resources, from Wichita, Kan., in support of the second annual Fort Leavenworth Symposium. Flint Hills Resources was the primary sponsor of the first-ever symposium last year.

“Expeditionary economics” has already sparked recent interest and debate in the highest levels of the military. From May 25-27, the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City and the Command and General Staff College Foundation co-hosted the Summit on Entrepreneurship and Expeditionary Economics, where military leaders and scholars explored in-depth how to… Read More

Retired Col. Robert R. Ulin receives the Philip Pistilli Silver Veteran’s Medal from Brig. Gen. Scott L. Thoele, deputy commanding general of the Army National Guard-Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, May 6 at the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation luncheon in Kansas City, Mo. Ulin is CEO… Read More

The Command and General Staff College Foundation conducted a grand opening ceremony for the “Col. Arthur D. Simons Center for the Study of Interagency Cooperation” April 21, on Fort Leavenworth. Located at 655 Biddle Boulevard on the Fort Leavenworth installation, the “Col. Arthur Simons Center” is a research, analysis, studies… Read More

by Maj. Demaris J. Johanek, CGSS Class 10-01The inaugural Fort Leavenworth Ethics Symposium took place from November 16-18, 2009 at the Frontier Conference Center on Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The event, co-sponsored by the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the CGSC Foundation, Inc. attracted approximately fifty attendees ranging… Read More