United States Army Command and General Staff College






























The Command and General Staff College

Fort Leavenworth Crest.jpg
Fort Leavenworth, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, and U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Device

Active
1881–present
Country
 United States
Branch
 United States Army
Garrison/HQ
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Commanders
Current
commander
John S. Kern[1]

The United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC or, obsolete, USACGSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is a graduate school for United States Army and sister service officers, interagency representatives, and international military officers. The college was established in 1881 by William Tecumseh Sherman as the School of Application for Infantry and Cavalry, (later simply the Infantry and Cavalry School), a training school for infantry and cavalry officers.[2] In 1907 it changed its title to the School of the Line. The curriculum expanded throughout World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War and continues to adapt to include lessons learned from current conflicts.


In addition to the main campus at Fort Leavenworth, the college has satellite campuses at Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Fort Lee, Virginia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. The satellite campuses provide non-residential distance learning opportunities.




Contents






  • 1 Mission statement


  • 2 Schools


  • 3 Notable people


    • 3.1 Notable alumni


    • 3.2 Notable foreign alumni


    • 3.3 Notable faculty and deputy commandants


    • 3.4 Commandants




  • 4 Photo gallery


  • 5 See also


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links





Mission statement


The United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) educates and develops leaders for full spectrum joint, interagency and multinational operations; acts as lead agent for the Army's leader development program; and advances the art and science of the profession of arms in support of Army operational requirements.[3]



Schools




Fort Leavenworth's Eisenhower Hall houses the CGSC Library.


The college consists of four schools:[3]




  • Command and General Staff School (CGSS) provides Intermediate Level Education (ILE) for United States Army and sister service officers, interagency representatives, and international military officers.[3] ILE is a ten-month graduate-level program; the curriculum includes instruction on leadership philosophy, military history, and the military planning and decision-making processes.[4] There is one ILE class per year; starting in August and ending in June. About 1,200 US military and international officers make up the class. In addition to the ILE curriculum, a graduate masters program exists for students who may qualify to complete a thesis-level research paper and receive a Master of Military Arts and Sciences (MMAS) degree at the School of Advanced Military Studies. The Masters program is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, the accrediting body for collegiate institutions in the midwestern United States.[5] ILE students are normally mid-career field-grade officers preparing for battalion command or staff positions at the division, brigade, or battalion level. In addition to CGSS at Fort Leavenworth, the school operates satellite campuses at Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Fort Lee, Virginia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.[6] Students at the satellite campuses complete the ILE Common Core, a condensed ninety-day program without the MMAS option, in lieu of the traditional ten-month program.[6]


  • School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) provides post-ILE instruction on complex military issues at the strategic and operational levels.[7] Students who complete the curriculum receive a Master of Military Arts and Sciences (MMAS) and are then assigned as high-level military planners. The Masters program is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, the accrediting body for collegiate institutions in the midwestern United States.[5]


  • School for Command Preparation (SCP) provides instruction for colonels, lieutenant colonels, and command sergeants major who have been selected for brigade or battalion command.[4][8] Courses are normally three to four weeks and focus on special topics unique to assumption of command at the levels indicated.


  • School of Advanced Leadership and Tactics (SALT) provides officer continuing education towards developing the Scholar-Warrior-Leader from first lieutenant to selection for major. The result is mastery of branch-specific technical and tactical skills, staff processes in battalions and brigades, direct leadership and command competencies, and initial broadening opportunities.[9]

  • During World War I, the CGSC at Ft. Leavenworth was closed, from 1916 until 1920. Most of the school staff was sent to Langres, France, to open and conduct the Army General Staff College, which operated from November 1917 to December 1918. This compressed-curriculum school was needed to provide command and staff officers for the exponentially growing number of Army units; divisions, regiments, brigades, and battalions.[10]



Notable people



Notable alumni


See also: Category:United States Army Command and General Staff College alumni












Notable foreign alumni


The college reports that 7,000 international students representing 155 countries have attended CGSC since 1894 and that more than 50 percent of CGSC International Military Student (IMS) graduates attain the rank of general.[11]



  • General Alfredo M. Santos of the Philippines

  • Lieutenant General Rafael Ileto (former Secretary of the Department of National Defense) of the Philippines

  • Major General Edmund E. Dillon of Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force

  • Prime Minister and General Tran Thien Khiem of South Vietnam

  • General Do Cao Tri of South Vietnam

  • Colonel Le Huy Luyen of South Vietnam

  • General Hau Pei-tsun of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

  • President Paul Kagame of Rwanda

  • General Katumba Wamala of Uganda

  • Brigadier General Muhoozi Kainerugaba son of Ugandan president, 2007–08.

  • General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan

  • General Rahimuddin Khan of Pakistan

  • General Jehangir Karamat of Pakistan

  • General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani of Pakistan

  • Brigadier Abdul Shakur Malik, Force Commander for the Northern Areas, Acting Director-General Military Training, of Pakistan

  • General Eiji Kimizuka of Japan

  • General Hisham Jaber of Lebanon

  • General Krishnaswamy Sundarji of Indian Army

  • Prime Minister and Brigadier-General Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore

  • General Dieudonné Kayembe Mbandakulu of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

  • President Gaafar Nimeiry of Sudan

  • Lt.Col Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero of the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua

  • General Nguyễn Hợp Đoàn of South Vietnam

  • General Nguyễn Khánh of South Vietnam

  • General Phạm Văn Đồng of South Vietnam

  • Ministry/Chief of Army General Staff and General Ahmad Yani of Indonesia

  • President and General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia

  • General Veljko Kadijević of Yugoslavia

  • General Antonio Domingo Bussi of Argentina

  • General Moeen U Ahmed of Bangladesh

  • General Amer Khammash of Jordan

  • General Arne Dagfin Dahl of Norway

  • General Gustav Hägglund of Finland

  • General Avigdor Kahalani of Israel

  • General David Tevzadze of Georgia

  • Colonel Nikoloz Janjgava of Georgia

  • General Moeen U Ahmed of Bangladesh

  • Général d'armée René Imbot, (fr:René Imbot#États-majors et commandements) Chief of Staff of the French Army, General Director of DGSE, France.


  • King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain[12]

  • General Abdulkadir Sheikh Dini of Somalia

  • Colonel Ahmed Mohammed Ali of Egypt

  • Lieutenant General Sean McCann of Ireland


Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake of Sri Lanka

  • General Isaac S A Chisuzi of Zambia


Notable faculty and deputy commandants




  • Robert Arter (Deputy Commandant 1977–79)


  • Richard E. Cavazos (faculty 1970–71)


  • Roger H.C. Donlon (1978–81)[13]


  • Frederick M. Franks, Jr. (Deputy commandant 1985–87)


  • James F. Hamlet Chief of the Air Mobility Branch 1968–69


  • Glenn K. Otis Deputy Chief of Staff 1976–78


  • Colin Powell Deputy Commanding General of the Combined Arms Combat Development Activity (1982–83)


  • Gordon R. Sullivan Deputy Commandant 1987–88


  • Adna R. Chaffee, Jr. 1919–20


  • Clarence R. Huebner (1929–33)


  • Walter Krueger (1901–12)


  • Lucian Truscott 1934–40



Commandants


Main article: Commandant of the United States Army Command and General Staff College

Since 1976, the commandant of the college has been a Lieutenant General. David Petraeus was the commandant between 2005 and 2007, immediately before going to command the Multi-National Force – Iraq.



Photo gallery






  • International Students of Class 1998–99







  • International Students of Class 1998–99 on a Kansas company visit







  • International Students of Class 1998–99 Gettysburg visit






See also



  • Battle command

  • Air Command and Staff College



References





  1. ^ "CGSC Leadership". U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Archived from the original on 1 January 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2017..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Otis, E. S. (1882). "8.—Report of Col. E. S. Otis". In United States War Department. Report of the Secretary of War; being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the second session of the Forty-seventh Congress. In four volumes. I. Washington: GPO. pp. 173–177. Archived from the original on 27 October 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2013. (p.173): "As directed by the General of the Army, in communication of September 27, I have the honor to submit the annual report of proceedings and results at the United States infantry and cavalry school here located, or for the period from December 1, last, the date of its organization, to the present time.
    The school was organized under the provisions of General Orders No. 42, War Department, of May 7, 1881, which provided that the commanding general of the Department of the Missouri should, as soon as the requisite number of companies could be assembled at Fort Leavenworth, take measures to establish a school for infantry and cavalry similar to that in operation at Fort Monroe for the artillery arm of the service."


  3. ^ abc "About the Command and General Staff College". U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Archived from the original on 12 September 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2013.


  4. ^ ab "About the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College". CGSC Foundation. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2013.


  5. ^ ab "CGSC Registrar". U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Archived from the original on 6 March 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2013.


  6. ^ ab "Satellite Campus Program". U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Archived from the original on 20 August 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2013.


  7. ^ "School of Advanced Military Studies – Converting intellectual power into combat power". U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Archived from the original on 18 October 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2013.


  8. ^ "School for Command Preparation". U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Archived from the original on 10 October 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2013.


  9. ^ "School of Advanced Leadership and Tactics". U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Archived from the original on 21 August 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2013.


  10. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 February 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2017.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)


  11. ^ "International Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony". U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. 1 October 2009. Archived from the original on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2013.


  12. ^ "US embassy cables: Bahrainis trained by Hezbollah, claims King Hamad". The Guardian. London. 15 February 2011. Archived from the original on 15 September 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2013.


  13. ^ Halloran, Richard; Molotsky, Irvin (14 December 1988). "Washington Talk: Briefing; A Hero Retires". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 May 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2013.




External links



  • Official website

  • Command and General Staff College, Combined Arms Research Library

  • Command and General Staff College, Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library





Coordinates: 39°20′39″N 94°54′57″W / 39.34417°N 94.91583°W / 39.34417; -94.91583









-

Popular posts from this blog

Florida Star v. B. J. F.

Image
Florida Star v. B. J. F. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search United States Supreme Court case Florida Star v. B. J. F. Supreme Court of the United States Argued March 21, 1989 Decided June 21, 1989 Full case name The Florida Star v. B. J. F. Citations 491 U.S. 524 ( more ) 109 S. Ct. 2603; 105 L. Ed. 2d 443; 1989 U.S. LEXIS 3120; 57 U.S.L.W. 4816; 16 Media L. Rep. 1801 Prior history The Florida Star v. B.J.F., 530 So.2d 286 (1988) Supreme Court of Florida; Florida Star v. B.J.F., 499 So.2d 883 (1986) Fla. Dist. Court of Appeals Holding Florida Stat. § 794.03 is unconstitutional to the extent it makes the truthful reporting of information that was a matter of public record unlawful, as it violates the First Amendment. Court membership Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr.  · Byron White Thurgood Marshall  · Harry Blac...
Read more

Danny Elfman

Image
Danny Elfman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Danny Elfman Elfman at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con Born Daniel Robert Elfman ( 1953-05-29 ) May 29, 1953 (age 65) Los Angeles, California, U.S. Spouse(s) Bridget Fonda ( m.  2003) Children 1 Musical career Genres Rock [1] ska [2] new wave film music video game music Occupation(s) Composer, singer, songwriter, record producer Instruments Trombone guitar percussion vocals keyboards [3] Years active 1972–present Associated acts Oingo Boingo James Newton Howard Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Elfman first became known for being the lead singer and songwriter for the band Oingo Boingo from 1974 to 1995. He is well known for scoring films and television shows, particularly his frequent collabora...
Read more

Lugert, Oklahoma

Image
Unincorporated community in Oklahoma, United States Lugert, Oklahoma Unincorporated community Foundations from the town of Lugert at the bottom of Lake Altus-Lugert Lugert, Oklahoma Location within the state of Oklahoma Coordinates: 34°53′45″N 99°16′31″W  /  34.89583°N 99.27528°W  / 34.89583; -99.27528 Coordinates: 34°53′45″N 99°16′31″W  /  34.89583°N 99.27528°W  / 34.89583; -99.27528 Country United States State Oklahoma County Kiowa Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))  • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT) GNIS feature ID 1100597 Lugert is an unincorporated community in Kiowa County, Oklahoma. [1] The town of Lugert was founded in 1901 on 80 acres (320,000 m 2 ). In the town, there was a general store that housed the Post office and sold dry goods, school supplies, groceries, harnesses, axes and much more. It was named for Frank Lugert, who had moved to the area in 1898. Lugert owned land where the town was sited and also owned the general st...
Read more