Command and General Staff College Foundation News Fall 2017 - 22

SIMONS CENTER UPDATE

PHOTO BY MARK H. WIGGINS

PHOTO BY ROD COX/SIMONS CENTER

Mr. Andrew B. Mitchell, a
career Foreign Service Officer
and the CGSC Distinguished
Professor of Diplomacy, led the
discussion on the Department of
State in the InterAgency BrownBag Lecture conducted Nov. 14
in the Lewis and Clark Center.

Former Special
Forces Sergeant
Terry Buckler visited
the Simons Center
June 9. During his
visit he posed for
this photo with the
Bull Simons display
in the center's lobby.
Buckler was a member of Simons' Son
Tay Raider team in
November 1970.

Simons Center working
hard in new academic year
Col. (Ret.) Roderick M. Cox, Simons Center Program Director

The simons CenTer

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enhAnCing The ACADemiC experienCe

for the Fort Leavenworth community as
well as is assisting Army University with
its outreach efforts to connect Americans
with their Army and the Command and
General Staff College. The Simons Center
continues to focus on building a body
of interagency knowledge, improving
interagency leaders, and seeking ways to
operate on a sustained basis.
Throughout the summer and fall we
have contributed to CGSC scholarship
both on and off the fort in a number
of ways. We have expanded our
Distinguished Speaker Series Program to
include not only the monthly InterAgency
Brown-Bag Lecture Series and the
DACOR Visiting Professor of Diplomacy
Program, but also now are presenting the
General of the Armies John J. Pershing
Great War Centennial Series and the
Vietnam War Commemoration Lecture

Series. (See article on page 25.) Likewise,
we are facilitating presentations by the
CGSC faculty to area universities and
civic organizations as well as continuing
to bring in senior policy makers and
practitioners to augment the CGSC
curriculum.
Through November we have conducted
four Interagency Brown-Bag Lecture
presentations for academic year 2108:
United States Agency for International
Development (USAID), the National
Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA),
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
and the U.S. Department of State. (See
Events on page 2 for upcoming lectures.)
These extracurricular lectures, conducted
in partnership with the Command and
General Staff School, greatly augment
the interagency education for CGSC
students and faculty, as well for personnel
working at multiple agencies throughout
the Kansas City area.

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As part of the Distinguished Speakers
Series Program, the Simons Center
in partnership with the International
Relations Council of Kansas City
sponsored a presentation in mid-October
at CGSC by United Nations Assistant
Secretary-General Kevin Kennedy.
Kennedy has served with the UN since
1993 and is recognized as an international
expert in humanitarian crisis response.
During his visit he conducted a discussion
led by Associate Dean Jack Kem with
faculty and students on UN operations
and activities around the world.
Similarly, we partnered with Park
University to sponsor a presentation
by Dr. W. Chris King, Ph.D., in midNovember, titled, "Climate Change: A
Critical National Security Assessment
and Strategic Whole of Government
Challenge," at Alumni Hall on the Park
University main campus in Parkville,
Missouri. Dr. King is a retired Army
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