Command and General Staff College Foundation News - 25

PHOTOS BY MARK H. WIGGINS

Lecture series
continue education
beyond the classroom

FEATURE

by Mark H. Wiggins, Managing Editor
The CGSC Foundation has continued its support of two lecture
series that are intended to recognize and celebrate the participants in
two different eras of war. The lectures also serve to expand the
learning experience beyond the standard classroom.
The CGSC Department of Military History hosts the "General of
the Armies John J. Pershing Great War Centennial Series" (or "Great
War Series" for short) with support from the CGSC Foundation.
CGSC's Department of Military History also presents the "Vietnam
War Commemoration Lecture Series" with support from the U.S. Army
Garrison Fort Leavenworth, the CGSC Foundation and the Henry
Leavenworth Chapter of the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA).
Both of these lecture series are conducted after-hours and are open to
the public.
Since the Fall edition of the Foundation News, the history department
and the Foundation have conducted two Great War lectures and four
Vietnam lectures.
Dr. John Curatola, associate
professor of history at
the U.S. Army School
of Advanced Military
Studies, presented the fifth
lecture in the Vietnam War
Commemoration Lecture
Series on March 8, 2017.
Curatola's lecture, "Rolling
Thunder: A Failure in
Gradualism," focused on the
air campaign executed from
1965 to 1968 over North
Vietnam and addressed its
failure to deter Communist
resolve during the war.

In the ninth lecture of the Great War lecture series, Dr. Mark Hull,
associate professor of history at CGSC, presented "Lawfare: The
Great War and the Idea of Justice" in the Arnold Conference Room
of the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth, Nov. 3.

Dr. Richard S. Faulkner, CGSC professor of history and CGSC's
William A Stofft Chair of Military History, presented "The Giant with
Feet of Clay: The U.S. Army Goes to War 1917-1918" in the Lewis and
Clark Center's Arnold Conference Room on March 16 for the 10th
lecture of the Great War Series.

Dr. James H. Willbanks, CGSC's General of the Army George C.
Marshall Chair of Military History, delivered the third lecture in the
Vietnam War Commemoration Lecture Series Dec. 7, 2016 in the
Riverfront Community Center in downtown Leavenworth, Kansas.

The sixth lecture in the
series entitled "Stories
of a New Army Nurse"
was presented on April
19 in the Riverfront
Community Center in
downtown Leavenworth,
Kansas, by Susan Backs,
a retired Army nurse
who spent her first tour
of duty as a young
nurse in Vietnam.
This fourth lecture in the Vietnam lecture series entitled "Reassessing
Westmoreland's War," was presented by Dr. Gregory Daddis,
associate professor of history at Chapman University (Orange, Calif.)
on Jan. 26 in the Arnold Conference Room.

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