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AMSP 2018 students conduct
planning during a two-week
practical exercise.

PHOTO BY ERIC PRICE/SAMS

FEATURE

CGSC '101' - School of
Advanced Military Studies

by Capt. L.H. Ginn, School for Advanced Military Studies

Who we are

The School of Advanced Military
Studies (SAMS) was founded in
June 1983. The School's mission is
to educate members of our Armed
Forces, our Allies, and the Interagency
at the graduate level to become agile
and adaptive leaders who are critical
and creative thinkers who produce
viable options to solve operational and
strategic problems. SAMS consists of
three separate programs: the Advanced
Military Studies Program (AMSP), the
Advanced Strategic Leadership Studies
Program (ASLSP), and the Advanced
Strategic Planning and Policy Program
(ASP3).

What we do

The AMSP is the best-known and
original graduate level, educational
program in SAMS, consisting of 144
Active Duty, Reserve, National Guard,
Joint, Interagency (IA), and International
Military Students (IMS). The majority
of these students hold the rank of major
and are recent graduates of CGSOC. The

purpose of AMSP is to develop planners
who help senior leaders understand a
complex environment and then assist
them as they visualize, describe, and
communicate viable solutions to
operational problems. The program
is accredited by the Higher Learning
Commission and awards students with
a Master of Arts in Military Operations.
Upon graduation, students are typically
assigned to a division, corps or ASCC
headquarters.
ASLSP is a Senior Service College
program that is Higher Learning
Commission and JPMEII accredited.
Graduates receive a Master of Arts in
Strategic Studies. ASLSP provides a
rigorous graduate-level education,
exposing students to and preparing them
for the volatile, uncertain, complex and
ambiguous dimensions of the joint,
interagency, and multinational security
environment and the effect of those
dimensions on strategy formulation,
implementation, and campaigning in the
dynamic global setting. ASLSP has one
seminar composed of eight U.S. Army,

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two U.S. Air Force, one U.S. Marine,
one U.S. Navy, one interagency and
three IMS officers. After their first year,
11 of the ASLSP students stay a second
year to serve as a military instructor
in ASLSP or a seminar leader for the
AMSP program.
ASP3 is a multi-year program which
began as an initiative of the Army Chief
of Staff and is now an Army program
of record for selected students to earn
their doctorate degree from a civilian
university, in a field of study related
to strategy. ASP3 focuses on selecting
and developing field-grade officers as
strategic thinkers through a combination
of practical experience, senior-level
professional military education, and
the doctoral degree. The program is
designed to produce broadly networked
future senior officers with strategic
acumen, credentials, and skills. Students
selected for command can complete
battalion or brigade command during
the program. Once they earn their
doctorate, officers serve as a strategic
planner in a senior level headquarters.


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