Command and General Staff College Foundation News Fall 2017 - 9

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PHOTO BY DAN NEAL/ARMYU PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Col. James C. Markert, director of SAMS, addresses students during the
SAMS graduation ceremony in May 2017.

How we do it

AMSP is intentionally designed as
a three year experience. It begins in
CGSS, followed by a focused and deep
educational experience in year two at
SAMS with the third year focused on
a utilization tour at a division, corps,
or ASCC headquarters to practice
operational planning under the tutelage
of more senior officers, to include the
General Officers leading the command.
While in AMSP, students take five separate
courses: Theory of Operational Art,
Evolutions of Operational Art, Strategic
Context of Operational Art, Design and
Operational Art and Anticipating the
Future. Students are assessed on their
learning at the end of academic courses
with a graded essay requirement. Between
these courses, students participate in five
separate exercises designed to strengthen
and develop the skills learned in seminar.
Throughout the year, students are required
to write a publishable monograph on a
topic of their choice, linked to operational
art. The culminating event for students is
a 3-hour oral comprehensive exam.
The ASLSP faculty teach a curriculum
which provides a comprehensive,
multifaceted focus at the theater-strategic
level across the spectrum of Joint, and
land force operations-during peace,
crisis, and war. The Joint learning
areas are an essential component for the
design of the ASLSP curriculum and
are required for JPMEII accreditation.
The academic model in ASLSP includes
graduate-level seminars, guest lectures,
short duration practical exercises, and
extensive field study to each of the

The Class of 2017 ASLSP and AMSP Students during their graduation
ceremony in May 2017.

Geographic Combatant Commands, as
well as functional commands such as
TRANSCOM and STRATCOM, plus
Army commands such as FORSCOM
and TRADOC. Graduation requirements
include written essays for each course, a
research paper, and an oral comprehensive
examination at the end of the year.
During their years as a doctoral
candidate, ASP3 officers also attend
professional military education at SAMS
to study history, strategic theory, and the
practice of strategic planning. Following
completion of their doctoral course work,
officers serve a developmental assignment
in a strategic planning position. After the
developmental assignment, ASP3 officers
spend one additional year working fulltime on their dissertation at SAMS or
another suitable location. Subsequently,
they will be assigned for utilization as a
strategic planner.

Honors and Awards

At the end of each year, one student
from AMSP is selected for the "Colonel
Tom Felts Leadership Award." This
award is the highest honor for each
graduating class. The Felts Leadership
Award recognizes the AMSP student
who best demonstrates all the attributes
from the SAMS-AMSP vision for a
graduate of the program - a decathlete.
This "decathlete" is essentially a leader
and thinker who, when faced with a
complex and ill-structured environment,
can help senior leaders develop an
understanding of that environment,
understand the problem sets within that
environment, visualize viable options

to solve operational problems, and
effectively describe their understanding
higher, laterally, and lower. A student
in each of the AMSP and ASLSP are
also recognized for having the "Best
Monograph" based on selection by a
board of professors.
In addition to academic rigor, the
school emphasizes physical fitness and
resiliency. Students must take and pass
the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT)
twice during their time in the program.
Seminars conduct organized physical
training (PT) throughout the week and
the SAMS Director conducts unit PT
once every two to three weeks. Events
include foot marches, formation runs and
circuit style work outs. The student with
the highest overall APFT score earns the
Iron Planner Award at graduation.
During the fall, SAMS also conducts
the Director's PT event: a five-mile team
building event which involves carrying a
170 pound litter and performing various
exercises throughout the course. In the
spring, individuals compete in a modified
version of the Director's PT event.
Students who exceed the standard can
earn the Iron Leader award at graduation.

The Future

SAMS will continue to produce
quality graduates who meet the needs
of the services and organizations that
they support and sustain. The school
will continue to update and refine its
curriculum to ensure graduates are
prepared to address the challenges
of the contemporary operational
environment.

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