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Preparing Leaders for the Future
Command and General Staff College PKSOI
Integrated Training and Education Workshop
Briefing
23 September 2008
U.S. Army Command General Staff College Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas
Command General Staff College Command Brief
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
This Briefing is Unclassified
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US Army Combined Arms Center
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CGSC Organization
Deputy Commandant BG Cardon
USMC COL Monroe
USN CDR Absetz
Assistant Deputy Commandant COL Weafer
Dean of Academics Dr. King
Chief of Staff Mr. LaMoe
Ft Belvoir
CGSC MISSION The US Army Command and General
Staff College educates and develops leaders for
full spectrum joint, interagency, and
multinational operations and advances the art
and science of the profession of arms in order to
support the operational requirements of the Army.
Dept of Military History
Center for Army Tactics
Dept of Command Leadership
Logistics and Resource Operations
Joint, Multinational Interagency Operations
Dept of Distance Education
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Combined Arms Center Curriculum Overview
Title Intermediate Level Education Host U.S.
Army Command and General Staff College Location
Lewis and Clark Center, Fort Leavenworth, KS
Duration CGSOC SAMS SCP 44 wks 2/yr
44 wks 2/yr 3 wks 12/yr
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Resident CGSOC Students
August Class 2009-01
February Class 2008-02
1255
TOTAL
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The ILE Program
Intermediate Level Education
Aug/Feb Dec/Jun
Jun/Dec
AOWC Operational, Divisional and Brigade
Warfighting Branch Officer Credentialing Course
ILE CORE Joint Warfighting Strategic/Operational/
Tactical
100 Active Army Majors

Resident Program Ft Leavenworth 1,255
Students AY 08/09 1,792 Students at end state
Ongoing Initiatives - Blended Learning (BL)
site at Ft Leavenworth - AOWC by DL
ILE CORE Joint Warfighting Strategic/Operational/
Tactical
Follow-on Credentialing Course Based on
Functional Area
30 (Other than Branch Officers)

Satellite Campus Location Program FY 05
implementation 3 Sites (Ft Belvoir, Ft Gordon,
Ft Lee) 12 annual iterations 768 students
Distance Education Programs TASS - 1,400
students world-wide Advanced Distributed
Learning - 3100 students 70 of all students
attend through TASS and ADL Faculty development
key to TASS success
US Army Combined Arms Center
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The ILE Program
Intermediate Level Education
Aug/Feb Dec/Jun
Jun/Dec
Command and General Staff Officer Course (CGSOC)
AOWC Operational, Divisional and Brigade
Warfighting Branch Officer Credentialing Course
ILE CORE Joint Warfighting Strategic/Operational/
Tactical
100 Active Army Majors

Resident Program Ft Leavenworth 1,255
Students AY 08/09 1,792 Students at end state
Ongoing Initiatives - Blended Learning (BL)
site at Ft Leavenworth - AOWC by DL
ILE CORE Joint Warfighting Strategic/Operational/
Tactical
Follow-on Credentialing Course Based on
Functional Area
30 (Other than Branch Officers)

Satellite Campus Location Program FY 05
implementation 3 Sites (Ft Belvoir, Ft Gordon,
Ft Lee) 12 annual iterations 768 students
Distance Education Programs TASS - 1,400
students world-wide Advanced Distributed
Learning - 3100 students 70 of all students
attend through TASS and ADL Faculty development
key to TASS success
US Army Combined Arms Center
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CGSOC Program Objectives
Mission Statement Educates and trains
intermediate level Army, sister service,
international officers and interagency leaders
prepared to operate in full spectrum Army, joint,
interagency, and multinational environments as
field grade commanders and staff officers.
Adaptive Leaders Culturally Attuned Be
responsive to cultural issues and able to
establish trust and confidence in the countries
and cultures you operate in. Be capable of
operating in Interagency, Intergovernmental,
Joint, and Civilian environments. Situationally
Aware Understand that tactical actions have
strategic effects. Active Communicators We
are in a people business. Contact Confidence
Cooperation. Engage and support the media.
Critical Reasoners Challenge assumptions and
ask why. Be forward looking, able to anticipate
2nd and 3rd order effects. Rapidly exercise
effective decision-making. Balanced Warriors
Personal Balance 5Fs - Family, Friends, Fitness
(physical and mental), Faith, and Fun
Experiential Balance Leaders need to operate in
multiple environments, not multi- skilled.
Develop broad based experience, more tools in the
toolbox. Leverage any chance to broaden career
opportunities, i.e. Fellowships and Interagency
Exchange. Creative Thinkers Innovative
Focus on How to think vs. What to think. Allow
for creativity and break the mold thinking
21st century problems cannot be solved by 20th
century thinking. Problem Solvers Answers are
situationally dependent, not memorized from
doctrine. Be able to prioritize and come up
with fresh solutions.
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CGSOC Key Elements
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CGSOC Key Elements Interagency Attendance
Jun/ Dec
Aug/ Feb
Sep/ Mar
Oct/ Apr
Nov/ May
Dec/ Jun
Jan/ Jul
Feb/ Aug
Mar/ Sep
May/ Nov
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History
H300 History
H100 History
H200 History
L100 Leadership
L200 Leadership
F100 Force
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Selected Students
P910

3 Weeks

IMS P920

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CGSOC Key Elements
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Core Elements
Key Tools
C423 Stability Operations
W330 Employ the BCT
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CGSOC Key Tools

• Team / Taught 12 faculty / 64 students
• Information Repositories Blackboard
  SharePoint
• Common Core C423 Stability Operations
• Case Methodology
• Homework (105 minutes)
• FM 3-07 (FAD), Stability Operations, (5 Sep
  2008)
• FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency (15 Dec 2006)
• FM 3-0 Operations (27 Feb 2008)
• DoD Directive 3000.05, Military Support for SSTR
  Operations (28 Nov 2005)
• National Security Presidential Directive 44,
  Management of Interagency Efforts Concerning
  Reconstruction and Stabilization (5 Dec 2005)
• Provisional Reconstruction Teams (PRT)
  Afghanistan
• Provisional Reconstruction Teams (PRT) Iraq
• Stability Operations in Japan, 1945-1952 Case
  Study
• In class (4 hours) 4 small groups of 4
  students each
• FSO concepts Stability tasks and
  purposes Use of Force
• Interagency/PRT Stability mechanisms

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CGSOC Key Tools

• AOWC W330 Employ the BCT
• Problem Case Practicum
• Homework (260 minutes)
• Army Battle Command Systems (CPOF)
• W330a (5.0 lesson days30 hours)
• Plan and prepare BCT employment (MDMP)
• Caspian Sea scenario AOWC problem case
• W330b (3.0 lesson days18 hours)
• Execute and assess aspects of BCT employment
• Rapid Decision making and Synchronization
  Process (RDSP)
• Student HBCT has moved forward and initially set
  in their assigned AO IAW their developed concept
  of operation.
• 6 Vignettes
• MSEL and Simulation supported exercise

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Partnerships and Gaps

• Partnerships
• Australian Command and Staff College
• Canadian Forces Staff College
• French Staff College
• German Army General Staff
• UK Intermediate Command and Staff College (L)
• Air Command and Staff College
• USMC Command and Staff College
• Naval Staff College

• Gaps
• Interagency (DOS, NGIA)
• NGO

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CGSC Web Page
CGSC
https//cgsc2.leavenworth.army.mil/
CGSC SharePoint
https//sp.leavenworth.army.mil/sites/CGSC/default
.aspx