Command and General Staff College Foundation News Fall 2017 - 15

ATTENDEES AT THIS NSRT PROGRAM:

PHOTOS BY MARK H. WIGGINS

Mr. Michael Avery, President, Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc.
Mr. Marlin Cone, Co-Owner, The Cone Team
Professor William Eckhardt (COL, Ret), Emeritus Professor of Law,
University of Missouri, Kansas City
Mr. Calvin Emig, President, Wildcat Property Management
Mr. Calvin Johnson (COL, Ret), Deputy, Mission Command
Battle Lab
Mr. Andrew Kaplan, Exec Vice President, Commerce
Trust Company
Mr. Bill Lawson, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Park University
Mr. Patrick Leis, Vice President, JE Dunn Construction Company
Mr. Tom Madsen, Vice President, AVI
Mr. John Martin, Office Managing Partner, Pricewaterhouse
Coopers, LLP
Mr. Paul Oltmanns, Jr., Hotel Manager, IHG
Dr. James Pasley, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences,
Park University
Mr. Richard Rue, Sr. Vice President & CFO (Retired),
ITA Group, Inc.
Reverend Tim Soule, Pastor, First Presbyterian Church
Mr. Brian Suhl, Prsident/Owner, Sandstrom Products, Inc.

Top, The panel on North Korea. From left, South Korean Liaison Officer to Fort
Leavenworth, Lt. Col. Kyunghwan Jung; Lt. Col. John Reynolds; Mr. Gary Hanson; and
Mr. Ralph M. Erwin, Senior Geospatial Intelligence Officer and NGA Liaison to Fort
Leavenworth. Center, DJIMO faculty present the discussion panel on China. From left,
Lt. Col. Arran Hassell (Australian exchange instructor), Lt. Col. David Lopes, Dr. Geoff
Babb and Dr. John Modinger. Bottom, Admiral Michael S. Rogers, commander of U.S.
Cyber Command, briefs the NSRT audience via videoteleconference on the evening of
the first day.

"Awakening the Dragon" was presented by Dr. John
Modinger who briefed the group on China's politics,
economy and military reform; Dr. Geoff Babb briefed on
China's security challenges; Lt. Col. David Lopes spoke
about China's relations with South Asia; and finally,
the exchange instructor from Australia, Lt. Col. Arran
Hassell, spoke about China's relations with Southeast
Asia. After this first panel, the NSRT guests had the
opportunity to sit in their student escorts' classrooms to
witness firsthand the regular instruction at CGSC.
During the lunch period Foundation CEO Doug Tystad
provided an overview of the CGSC Foundation and how
it supports the College, after which the second panel
entitled "North Korea: "A Tense Time on the Peninsula"
was introduced. During this panel Mr. Ralph M. Erwin,
Senior Geospatial Intelligence Officer and NGA Liaison
to the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command
and the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth,
spoke about North Korea's physical environment; Mr.
Gary Hanson briefed on the politics and economy of the
country; Lt. Col. John Reynolds compared/contrasted
North and South Korea's militaries; and South Korean
Liaison Officer to Fort Leavenworth, Lt. Col. Kyunghwan
Jung, spoke about North Korea's missile and nuclear
capabilities and its possible strategic intentions.
After the final Q&A, Col Robert Ault, director of
the Command and General Staff Officer School, and
Foundation trustee Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Richard Keller
presented the attendees with their NSRT graduation
certificates. Tystad also presented each NSRT grad with
a challenge coin.

See the full story with links to more photos and the panel discussion briefing slides at
http://www.cgscfoundation.org/nsrt-program-focuses-on-china-north-korea/

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