BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Dole Institute - ECPv6.16.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://doleinstitute.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Dole Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250402T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250402T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20250307T192940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T175526Z UID:7871-1743606000-1743610500@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Preparing for the Unthinkable: The U.S. Navy\, SLBMS\, and the TRANSIT Satellites DESCRIPTION:In April 1960 the US Navy launched the first experimental navigation satellite.  This highly classified and cutting-edge technology found in the TRANSIT satellites were designed to provide the Navy’s submarines armed with the new POLARIS ballistic missile with more precise navigation fixes as a means to improve their accuracy\, if and when they had to launch their missiles against the Soviet Union.  Though useful for the U.S. Navy\, President Lyndon Baines Johnson also found a civilian application. Thus\, our routine use of GPS today in 2025 is result of this innovative technology during the Cold War. \nDr. Sean N. Kalic is a Cold War historian. He lectures and publishes widely on topics such as U.S. space policy\, the Cold War\, the post-Cold War security environment\, and transnational terrorism. Prior to CGSC\, he taught at Youngstown State University\, Kansas State University\, and Norwich University. He has presented lectures for the U.S. Navy War College’s Fleet Seminar Program\, The Slovenian General Staff\, The Slovenian Command and General Staff College\, The U.S. Army’s Futures Command\, as well as numerous international conferences. He has taught in the Department of Military History at the US Army Command and General Staff College since 2004. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \n  \n\n  \nThe opinions expressed herein are those of the individual and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/preparing-for-the-unthinkable-the-u-s-navy-slbms-and-the-transit-satellites/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9.3.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250305T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250305T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20250113T150006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250115T164427Z UID:7654-1741186800-1741191300@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Robert Fulton: Submarines\, Mines\, and Torpedoes DESCRIPTION:Robert Fulton is best known for the first commercially successful steamboats plying the Hudson River.  However\, he did considerable work inventing and developing weapons of naval warfare: workable submarines\, underwater mines\, underwater cannons\, and skiff-propelled torpedoes.  Perhaps his crowning contribution to naval warfare was the Demologus (Voice of the People) – the world’s first steam-powered warship with 5-foot-thick walls and carrying sixteen 32-pounder guns for the protection of New York Harbor. \nDr. Richard V. Barbuto is a Professor Emeritus of Military History and former Deputy Director of the Department of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College\, Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas before retiring in 2016. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Kansas in 1996. Graduating from West Point in 1971\, Dr. Barbuto served twenty-three years as an armor officer with assignments in Europe\, Canada\, and Korea as well as various locations in the U.S. While on active duty he was on the teaching faculty in the Military Science Department at Eastern Kentucky University\, the Land Studies Department at the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College\, as well as two tours with the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth. In 2001\, after his retirement from active duty\, Dr. Barbuto joined the teaching faculty at the Department of Military History at USACGSC. In 2000 The University Press of Kansas published Niagara 1814: America Invades Canada. This was the first book-length examination of the four-month campaign along the Niagara River which included the battles of Chippawa\, Lundy’s Lane\, and the Siege of Fort Erie. Dr. Barbuto is a regular presenter at the War of 1812 in the West Symposium and has made several presentations on other key campaigns of the War of 1812. His current interest is to fill the void of unit histories of the American Army 1812-1815\, particularly regular army units raised in New York State. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \n  \n\n  \nThe opinions expressed herein are those of the individual and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/robert-fulton-submarines-mines-and-torpedoes/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/3.5.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250205T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250205T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20250113T150011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T174835Z UID:7651-1738767600-1738772100@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:G-Planes\, R-Planes\, and Zeppelins: Germany's Strategic Bombing Campaign in the First World War DESCRIPTION:The Nazis’ attempt to bomb Great Britain into submission in 1940 and 1941 represented Hitler’s most destructive method of forcing Britain out of the Second World War\, but it was not the first time London and other cities had experienced such attacks. From 1915 to 1918\, aircraft from Imperial Germany’s army and navy sought to circumvent the need to continue the ground war by employing then then-new technique of aerial bombing to break the will of the British people to continue the war. The experiences of both the bombers and the bombed offered many lessons for those curious enough to look for them. \nTom Hanson is a professor of military history at the US Army’s Command and General Staff College (CGSC) at Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Minnesota\, and master’s and doctoral degrees in history from The Ohio State University. He previously served on the faculties of the US Military Academy at West Point\, New York; George Mason University\, Fairfax\, Virginia; the Australian Strategic Policy Institute\, Canberra\, Australia; the School of Advanced Military Studies’ Advanced Strategic Leadership Studies Program; and as director of the CGSC Department of Military History in 2017 and 2018. He is the author of several articles and book chapters on various historical subjects and of the book Combat Ready? The Eighth US Army on the Eve of the Korean War 1949-1950 (2010)\, which earned a place on the US Army Chief of Staff’s Professional Reading List in 2017.  He retired from the US Army in 2017 after more than 28 years of service. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \n  \n\n  \nThe opinions expressed herein are those of the individual and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/g-planes-r-planes-and-zeppelins-germanys-strategic-bombing-campaign-in-the-first-world-war/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2.5.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241204T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241204T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20240307T180016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241205T175207Z UID:5428-1733324400-1733328900@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:World Leaders in Wartime: Augustus the Strong\, Elector of Saxony DESCRIPTION:Popularly known as “the Strong” for his formidable physical vigor and power\, Augustus II came to power in Saxony in 1694 and won the throne of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth three years later. He then proceeded to conduct military operations against the Turks that resulted in the Treaty of Karlowitz before forming alliances with the rulers of Russia and Denmark with an eye on checking Swedish ambitions and advancing his own. The Great Northern War\, however\, went poorly for Augustus\, as his armies suffered defeat and he lost his throne for three years before taking advantage of Russian victories to return to power. This talk will describe the fascinating life and career of Augustus II and his efforts to deal with the complex political\, military\, and diplomatic environment in which he exercised leadership. \nEthan S. Rafuse received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and since 2004 has been a member of the faculty at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College\, where he is a professor of military history.  In 2018-19\, he was the Charles Boal Ewing Distinguished Visiting Professor at the U.S. Military Academy. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \n  \n\n  \nThe opinions expressed herein are those of the individual and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/world-leaders-in-wartime-augustus-the-strong-elector-of-saxony/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/7.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241106T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241106T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20240307T180151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241110T214606Z UID:5432-1730905200-1730909700@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:World Leaders in Wartime: Abraham Lincoln DESCRIPTION:Abraham Lincoln\, often characterized as one of America’s preeminent war leaders\, was a master politician who intuitively understood the political consequences of any decision.  Yet on matters of strategy\, arguably the most important responsibility of a wartime president\, Lincoln deferred to his military commanders rather than exercise his authority as commander-in-chief.  His strategy of deference nearly proved to be a strategy for defeat. \nHarry S. Laver is a professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College\, Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas\, who specializes in the American Civil War and World War II Europe.  He is the author of A General Who Will Fight: The Leadership of Ulysses S. Grant (2013).  His current book projects include Grant and His Generals: A Study of Military Command\, and Ike and Tedder: A Study of Allied Command. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \n  \n\n  \nThe opinions expressed herein are those of the individual and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/world-leaders-in-wartime-abraham-lincoln/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/8.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241002T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241002T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20240307T180323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241110T214548Z UID:5436-1727881200-1727885700@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:World Leaders in Wartime: Vladimir Putin DESCRIPTION:On February 24\, 2022 Russian military forces invaded Ukraine under orders from Russian President Valdimir Putin.  This was the largest military operation in Europe since the end of the Second World War. This lecture will focus on Putin\, his wartime leadership\, and the status of the war in Ukraine. \nDr. Sean N. Kalic is a Cold War historian. He lectures and publishes widely on topics such as U.S. space policy\, the Cold War\, the post-Cold War security environment\, and transnational terrorism. Prior to CGSC\, he taught at Youngstown State University\, Kansas State University\, and Norwich University.  He has presented lectures for the U.S. Naval War College’s Fleet Seminar Program\, The Slovenian General Staff\, The Slovenian Command and General Staff College\, The U.S. Army’s Futures Command\, as well as numerous international conferences. Currently\, he is a Professor in the Department of Military History at the US Army Command and General Staff College where he has taught since 2004. \nHis significant publications include Combating a Modern Hydra: Al Qaeda and the Global War on Terrorism (2005); Thinking about War: Past\, Present and Future (2011); US Presidents and the Militarization of Space\, 1946-1967 (2012); The Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War: An Essential Reference (2017); and Spies: The U.S. And Russian Espionage from the Cold War to the 21st Century (2019). U.S. President During War Time: A History of Leadership (2023). \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \n  \n\n  \nThe opinions expressed herein are those of the individual and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/world-leaders-in-wartime-vladimir-putin/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/9.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240904T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240904T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20240307T175827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241110T214534Z UID:5424-1725462000-1725466500@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:World Leaders in Wartime: Winston Churchill DESCRIPTION:Winston S. Churchill served as a wartime leader in the twentieth century’s two global wars. His posts during the Great War included service as First Lord of the Admiralty\, akin to our Secretary of the Navy and\, as such\, set British naval policy until his removal following the failure at Gallipoli in mid-1915. During the Second World War\, Churchill served as the unwavering leader of the United Kingdom shepherding the country from near certain defeat in 1940 through the Allied victory over the Third Reich in Europe. Despite his failures during the First World War\, Churchill’s stubbornly optimistic leadership was uniquely suited for the crises presented by the second global war. \nCOL (Ret) Dave Cotter is the Dean of Academics\, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the Chief Academic Officer of Army University\, Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas. He was formerly the Director of the Department of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School. Dr. Cotter is a retired military officer of 32 years’ experience including combat deployments in command of a battalion and\, subsequently\, a brigade. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \n  \n\n  \nThe opinions expressed herein are those of the individual and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/world-leaders-in-wartime-winston-churchill/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/6.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240807T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240807T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20240314T183021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241110T214514Z UID:5445-1723042800-1723047300@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:World Leaders in Wartime: George Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion DESCRIPTION:In 1794 the new American republic was beset by a host of “enemies\,” foreign and domestic. For George Washington\, the greatest of these came from the disgruntled citizens of the Appalachian west who sought to resist the federal government’s ability to collect taxes and codify its powers. The Whiskey Rebellion was the first true test of the nation and the presidency. In ensuring that the Constitution was the writ of the land\, Washington also set many of the precedents that governed the use of military force domestically for the presidents that followed. \nDr. Richard S. Faulkner is a Professor of Military History and has taught at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) for over 21 years. He served 23 years in the U.S. Army and commanded a tank company in the 1st Armored Division during Operation Desert Storm.  He is the author of The School of Hard Knocks: Combat Leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces (Texas A&M Press\, 2012)\, which was the recipient of the Society for Military History’s 2013 Distinguished Book Award. His second book\, Pershing’s Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I (University Press of Kansas\, 2017) received the World War I Association’s 2017 Norman B. Tomlinson\, Jr. Prize for the best work of history in English on World War One\, the Organization of American Historians’ 2017 Richard W. Leopold Prize\, and the Army Historical Foundation’s 2017 Excellence in U.S. Army History Book Award. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \n  \n\n  \nThe opinions expressed herein are those of the individual and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/world-leaders-in-wartime-george-washington-and-the-whiskey-rebellion/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/5.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240605T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240605T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20240307T175648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241110T214436Z UID:5421-1717599600-1717604100@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:World Leaders in Wartime: Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong DESCRIPTION:Dr. Babb will discuss the wartime leadership of Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) and Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong). Their political and military leadership in the Chinese Civil War\, the War Against Japan\, and during two crises in the Taiwan Strait encompassed an adversarial relationship that stretched for nearly 50 years. These two leaders not only sought victory on the battlefield\, but more importantly\, the right to rule a country with the world’s largest population and guide its return to major power influence. \nDr. Geoff Babb served as a US Army Military Intelligence Officer in Washington\, DC and after completing education as a China Foreign Area Officer\, was then assigned to Joint and Army Headquarters in Hawaii. He later was posted to the Command and General Staff College faculty at Fort Leavenworth. He earned a Masters in East Asian Languages and Cultures\, and a Doctorate in History from the University of Kansas. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series\nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \n  \n\n  \nThe opinions expressed herein are those of the individual and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/world-leaders-in-wartime-chiang-kai-shek-and-mao-zedong/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/FTLV-2024_YouTubeWebsite.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240501T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240501T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20240118T195758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241110T214416Z UID:4951-1714575600-1714580100@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:World Leaders in Wartime: William McKinley DESCRIPTION:At the turn of the 20th century\, President William McKinley led the United States’ continued expansion abroad through war with Spain over Cuba and the Philippines. His expansion of American power and influence abroad through two subsequent wars attempted to continue shifting the global balance of power dominated for the last few centuries by European nations. This talk will examine his role as president during the age of imperialism on the eve of the First World War\, and how the legacy of his actions reverberate throughout the 20th century. \nAmanda M. Nagel received her Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi. Her research centers on race\, war\, empire\, Jim Crow\, and citizenship in the United States between 1898 and 1926. She is currently revising a manuscript\, “He thinks he is a soldier”: Race\, Empire\, and the United States\, 1898-1926\, for the University of Virginia Press\, expected to appear in 2025. She recently published an essay titled “African American Soldiers in World War I” with Oxford University Press’s Research Encyclopedia of American History in February 2021. She also has authored a chapter titled\, “The Integration of USMA in the Popular Press\, 1870-1871\,” in the forthcoming Race\, Politics\, and Reconstruction at Old West Point\, with the University of Virginia Press in fall 2024. She is currently an Associate Professor of Military History at the Department of Military History\, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College\, at Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series\nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \n  \n\n  \nThe opinions expressed herein are those of the individual and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/world-leaders-in-wartime-william-mckinley/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/3-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240403T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20240116T222801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241110T214355Z UID:4947-1712156400-1712160900@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:World Leaders in Wartime: King Henry II DESCRIPTION:King Henry II of England (reigned 1154-1189) was the most powerful European monarch of his day\, husband to Eleanor of Aquitaine\, and father to two successors: Richard the Lionheart and King John. Over the course of 35 years\, he successfully warred against neighbors in the Isles and on the Continent\, expanding his domains to create the so-called “Angevin Empire.” This talk will outline Henry’s military career and examine the breadth\, depth\, consequences\, and legacy of his conquests. \nJohn D. Hosler (Ph.D. University of Delaware) is a Professor of Military History at the Command and General Staff College. An expert in the history of the Middle Ages\, he studies conflict in medieval Europe and the Near East. Among his various books are Henry II: a Medieval Soldier at War\, 1147-1189 (Brill\, 2007)\, Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace (Yale UP\, 2022)\, and The Siege of Acre\, 1189-1191 (Yale UP\, 2018)\, which was named a Financial Times and Time Literary Supplement Book of the Year. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series\nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \n  \n\n  \nThe opinions expressed herein are those of the individual and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/world-leaders-in-wartime-king-henry-ii/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240306T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240306T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20240112T225133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241110T214334Z UID:4926-1709737200-1709741700@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:World Leaders in Wartime: Winfield Scott and Joint Warfare in 1847-1848 DESCRIPTION:In March of 1847 General Winfield Scott led the first large-scale joint operation in U.S. history. Seeking to compel a favorable conclusion to the ongoing war with Mexico\, the veteran U.S. Army commander developed an ad hoc partnership with the U.S. Navy to conduct an amphibious landing and assault on the fortress city of Veracruz along the Gulf of Mexico. This cooperation between the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy\, which occurred in the absence of joint doctrine or American precedent\, set conditions for a successful march on Mexico City and would establish an enduring cornerstone for the American Way of War. \nLieutenant Colonel Nathan Jennings is an Army Strategist and Associate Professor in the Department of Joint\, Interagency\, and Multinational Operations at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas. With a background in armored warfare and counterinsurgency\, he served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and previously taught history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point\, New York. Jennings is a graduate of the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies\, holds a Master of Arts in History from the University of Texas at Austin\, and earned a PhD in History from the University of Kent. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series\nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \n  \n\n  \nThe opinions expressed herein are those of the individual and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/world-leaders-in-wartime-winfield-scott-and-joint-warfare-in-1847-1848/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/1-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240207T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240207T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20240112T225019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241110T214310Z UID:4923-1707318000-1707322500@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:World Leaders in Wartime: George Marshall DESCRIPTION:General George C. Marshall is arguably one of the most influential American military men to have ever lived. However\, he is not known for his battlefield accomplishments\, but rather his organizational and diplomatic achievements. From 1939 to his retreat from public life in 1951\, Marshall shepherded first the U.S. Army\, then the State Department\, and then finally the American Military\, through a tumultuous and transformational decade. \nDr. William S. Nance is a retired armor officer with two combat tours to Iraq. He is a World War Two operational historian with books covering American mechanized cavalry and General William Simpson. He is currently an associate professor of history at the Command and General Staff School. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series\nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \n  \n\n  \nThe opinions expressed herein are those of the individual and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College or any other governmental agency. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/world-leaders-in-wartime-george-marshall/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/FTLV_websiteyt_concept.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231207T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231207T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20230407T153833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230407T153833Z UID:3848-1701961200-1701965700@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Dr. Geoff Babb: “War in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater\, December 1941-May 1942” DESCRIPTION:“War in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater\, December 1941-May 1942”\nDr. Geoff Babb\nThursday\, December 7\, 2023 | 3:00 p.m. \nIn December 1941\, from Wake Island to Burma\, Japanese forces overran and overwhelmed key allied bases and facilities. British\, American\, Dutch\, and Chinese forces were unable to stop the onslaught. By May 1941\, the Dutch East Indies\, Burma\, Malaya and Singapore\, Hong Kong\, and the Philippines were all in enemy hands. The invasions of 1942 saw the peak of Japanese expansion in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater\nof the Second World War. \nDr. Babb was commissioned from Bowdoin College in Brunswick\, Maine. He served as a US Army Military Intelligence Officer in Washington\, DC and after completing education as a China Foreign Area Officer\, was then assigned to Joint and Army Headquarters in Hawaii. He later was posted to the Command and General Staff College faculty at Fort Leavenworth. He earned a Masters in East Asian Languages and Cultures\, and a Doctorate in History from the University of Kansas. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \nThe Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics is dedicated to promoting political and civic participation as well as civil discourse in a bipartisan\, philosophically balanced manner. It is located on KU’s West Campus and houses the Dole Archive and Special Collections. Through its robust public programming\, congressional archive\, and museum\, the Dole Institute strives to celebrate public service and the legacies of US Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/dr-geoff-babb-war-in-the-asiatic-pacific-theater-december-1941-may-1942/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/12.07-Fort-Leavenworth.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231102T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231102T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20230503T182806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230503T182806Z UID:3845-1698937200-1698941700@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Dr. John Kuehn: “Hideyoshi’s Invasion of Korea in the 1500s” DESCRIPTION:“Hideyoshi’s Invasion of Korea in the 1500s”\nDr. John Kuehn\nThursday\, November 2\, 2023 | 3:00 p.m. \nThe Shogun Hideyoshi Toyotomi had only recently unified Japan when he made the decision to invade Korea. Korea had served as a springboard of the attempted Mongol conquest of Japan in the 13th Century. Hideyoshi and his allies had never forgotten this danger. Hideyoshi was also inspired by the martial legend of the great Khan\, and so inspired\, partly for security\, partly for glory\, he invaded Korea in 1592 with a huge army of over 150\,000 veteran troops. His ultimate goal was the conquest of China itself. This lecture will look at this invasion and its disastrous aftermath for the Koreans and\, ultimately\, the Japanese. \nDr. John T. Kuehn is Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC). He retired from the U.S. Navy 2004 at the rank of commander after 23 years\, serving as a naval flight officer (NFO) flying land and carrier-based aircraft. He has taught a variety of subjects\, including military history\, at CGSC since 2000. He authored Agents of Innovation (2008)\, A Military History of Japan: From the Age of the Samurai to the 21st Century (2014)\, Napoleonic Warfare: The Operational Art of the Great Campaigns (2015)\, and co-authored Eyewitness Pacific Theater (2008) with D.M. Giangreco as well as numerous articles and editorials and was awarded a Moncado Prize from the Society for Military History in 2011. His latest book from Naval Institute Press is America’s First General Staff: A Short History of the Rise and Fall of the General Board of the Navy\, 1900-1950 (Fall 2017). During 2016-2017 Dr. Kuehn served on CNO Admiral John Richardson’s Fleet Design Advisory Panel assessing congressionally mandated architectures for the fleet of 2030. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \nThe Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics is dedicated to promoting political and civic participation as well as civil discourse in a bipartisan\, philosophically balanced manner. It is located on KU’s West Campus and houses the Dole Archive and Special Collections. Through its robust public programming\, congressional archive\, and museum\, the Dole Institute strives to celebrate public service and the legacies of US Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/dr-john-kuehn-hideyoshis-invasion-of-korea-in-the-1500s/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/11.02-Fort-Leavenworth.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231005T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231005T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20230407T153146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230412T200635Z UID:3840-1696518000-1696522500@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Dr. John Hosler: “Bidding Syria Adieu: The Arab Invasions of 634-638” DESCRIPTION:“Bidding Syria Adieu: The Arab Invasions of 634-638”\nDr. John Hosler\nThursday\, October 5\, 2023 | 3:00 p.m. \nThough little known to western audiences\, the Arab invasions of 634-638 into Syria and the Levant were some of the most consequential in history. What began as small-scale raiding of frontier Byzantine garrisons soon transitioned to full-scale war\, featuring a decisive victory of the Byzantine army at the Battle of Yarmuk in 636 and the capture of Jerusalem in 638. The surrender of the Holy City enabled Muslim control of the Temple Mount within it and the construction of two of the most famous sites for all of Islam: the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Following the conquest of Syria\, their armies would go on to conquer Egypt\, Persia\, Mesopotamia\, North Africa\, and Iberia—by 711\, over half of the old Roman Empire lived in the Abode of Islam. \nJohn D. Hosler (PhD University of Delaware) is a Professor of Military History at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. An expert on medieval warfare in Europe and the Near East\, he is the author or editor of seven books\, including Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace (Yale UP\, 2022)\, The Siege of Acre\, 1189-1191 (Yale UP\, 2018)\, and John of Salisbury: Military Authority of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (Brill\, 2012)\, as well as over 60 shorter publications. He is the past President of De Re Militari: the Society for Medieval Military History\, a current Trustee of the United States Commission for Military History\, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \nThe Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics is dedicated to promoting political and civic participation as well as civil discourse in a bipartisan\, philosophically balanced manner. It is located on KU’s West Campus and houses the Dole Archive and Special Collections. Through its robust public programming\, congressional archive\, and museum\, the Dole Institute strives to celebrate public service and the legacies of US Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/dr-john-hosler-bidding-syria-adieu-the-arab-invasions-of-534-638/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/10.05-Fort-Leavenworth.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230907T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230907T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20230407T152733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230407T152733Z UID:3835-1694098800-1694103300@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Dr. Dirk Ringgenberg: “Operation Northern Delay: The US Airborne Invasion of Iraq from a First-Hand Perspective” DESCRIPTION:“Operation Northern Delay: The US Airborne Invasion of Iraq from a First-Hand Perspective”\nDr. Dirk Ringgenberg\nThursday\, September 7\, 2023 | 3:00 p.m. \nOn 26 March 2003\, in the first weeks of Operation Iraqi Freedom\, USAF C17 Globemasters from 4 different Air Wings transported 1\,000 paratroopers from the U.S. Army 173rd Airborne Brigade and conducted a night mass tactical combat parachute assault into Bashur Airfield\, Iraq\, as part of Operation Northern Delay. The operation forced the Iraqi Army to maintain approximately six divisions to protect its northern flank\, providing strategic relief for Coalition Forces advancing on Baghdad from the South. \nMr. Dirk D. Ringgenberg is an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in the Department of Military History and a doctoral candidate at Iowa State University. Dirk is a highly decorated (Silver Star\, Bronze Star for Valor) retired Major with a distinguished military career spanning 24 years\, predominately in Paratrooper and Ranger units. He participated in Operation Northern Delay as a Captain. Dirk and wife\, Michelle live in Landing\, Kansas with son\, Hunter. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \nThe Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics is dedicated to promoting political and civic participation as well as civil discourse in a bipartisan\, philosophically balanced manner. It is located on KU’s West Campus and houses the Dole Archive and Special Collections. Through its robust public programming\, congressional archive\, and museum\, the Dole Institute strives to celebrate public service and the legacies of US Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/dr-dirk-ringgenberg-operation-northern-delay-the-us-airborne-invasion-of-iraq-from-a-first-hand-perspective/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/09.07-Fort-Leavenworth.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230803T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230803T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20230503T182637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230503T182637Z UID:3829-1691074800-1691079300@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Dr. Shawn Faulkner: “The Three Invasions of Serbia in 1914” DESCRIPTION:“The Three Invasions of Serbia in 1914”\nDr. Shawn Faulkner\nThursday\, August 3\, 2023 | 3:00 p.m. \nWith the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June 1914\, the Austro-Hungarian empire was set on a collision course with the Kingdom of Serbia that ultimately sparked the First World War. This lecture examines why the Austrians invasions of Serbia in 1914 failed to achieve the Hapsburg’s goal of crushing their Balkan enemy. It will also examine how and why a multi-national Central Powers attack decisively defeated Serbia the following year. \nDr. Richard S. Faulkner is a Professor of Military History and has taught at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College for 20 years. He served 23 years in the U.S. Army and commanded a tank company in the 1st Armored Division during Operation Desert Storm. He is the author of The School of Hard Knocks: Combat Leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces (Texas A&M Press\, 2012)\, which was the recipient of the Society for Military History’s 2013 Distinguished Book Award. His second book\, Pershing’s Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I (University Press of Kansas\, 2017) received the World War I Association’s 2017 Norman B. Tomlinson\, Jr. Prize for the best work of history in English on World War One\, the Organization of American Historians’ 2017 Richard W. Leopold Prize\, and the Army Historical Foundation’s 2017 Excellence in U.S. Army History Book Award. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \nThe Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics is dedicated to promoting political and civic participation as well as civil discourse in a bipartisan\, philosophically balanced manner. It is located on KU’s West Campus and houses the Dole Archive and Special Collections. Through its robust public programming\, congressional archive\, and museum\, the Dole Institute strives to celebrate public service and the legacies of US Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/dr-shawn-faulkner-the-three-invasions-of-serbia-in-1914/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/08.03-Fort-Leavenworth.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230706T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230706T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20230407T151907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230622T211858Z UID:3821-1688655600-1688660100@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:CANCELED: Dr. Martin Clemis: "Invasion and Counter invasion: Vietnam\, 1976-1979" DESCRIPTION:The Ft. Leavenworth program scheduled for July 6th has been cancelled. We hope you join us for the next program in the series “The Three Invasions of Serbia in 1914” on Thursday\, August 3 at 3 p.m. \nOn December 25\, 1978\, soldiers from the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) crossed into Cambodia as part of a punitive expedition against the Khmer Rouge. Three months later\, in response to this incursion\, the People’s Republic of China sent combat troops into Vietnam’s northern provinces. The Vietnamese invasion of Democratic Kampuchea and Chinese counter-invasion of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam marked the beginning of the Third Indochina War\, an unforeseen and unprecedented conflict that pitted three regional communist powers against one another in the pursuit of ethnonationalist objectives. This lecture will examine the origins\, conduct\, and outcome of these military invasions\, and discuss their historical implications on the global Cold War. \nMartin G. Clemis is an associate professor in the Department of Military History at the Command and General Staff College. He is the author of The Control War: The Struggle for South Vietnam\, 1968-1975 (University of Oklahoma Press\, 2018)\, and a contributing author in Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam Conflict (University of North Texas Press\, 2019)\, Drawdowns: The American Way of Postwar (New York University Press\, 2017)\, and War and Geography: The Spatiality of Organized Mass Violence (Ferdinand Schoningh\, 2017). Martin has had articles published in Army History and Small Wars and Insurgencies. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \nThe Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics is dedicated to promoting political and civic participation as well as civil discourse in a bipartisan\, philosophically balanced manner. It is located on KU’s West Campus and houses the Dole Archive and Special Collections. Through its robust public programming\, congressional archive\, and museum\, the Dole Institute strives to celebrate public service and the legacies of US Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/dr-martin-clemis-invasion-and-counter-invasion-vietnam-1976-1979/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CANCELLED-Ft.-7.6-Graphic.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230601T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230601T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20230407T151254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230407T151254Z UID:3812-1685631600-1685636100@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Dr. Cameron Zinsou: “Operation Dragoon: The Allied Invasion of Southern France in World War II” DESCRIPTION:“Operation Dragoon: The Allied Invasion of Southern France in World War II”\nDr. Cameron Zinsou\nThursday\, June 1\, 2023 | 3:00 p.m. \nOperation Dragoon (formerly Anvil) was one of the most contentious Allied operations undertaken during the Second World War. It was also the most successful amphibious assault of the conflict. This lecture reveals the debates and circumstances that led to Dragoon’s execution and analyzes the how and why it almost did not occur. \nDr. Cameron Zinsou is an Assistant Professor of History in the Department of Military History at the Command and General Staff College. His research focuses on the intersection of occupation\, requisitions\, civil/military relations\, and citizenship in World War II France. Dr. Zinsou has a manuscript under contract with the University Press of Kansas\, Occupied: Requisitions\, Meaning\, and the French Experience during World War II. He has also featured on numerous media platforms including multiple podcasts and the Smithsonian Channel’s documentary series World War II Battles in Color and has publications in the New York Times and War on the Rocks. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \nThe Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics is dedicated to promoting political and civic participation as well as civil discourse in a bipartisan\, philosophically balanced manner. It is located on KU’s West Campus and houses the Dole Archive and Special Collections. Through its robust public programming\, congressional archive\, and museum\, the Dole Institute strives to celebrate public service and the legacies of US Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/dr-cameron-zinsou-operation-dragoon-the-allied-invasion-of-southern-france-in-world-war-ii/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/06.01-Fort-Leavenworth.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230504T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230504T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20230130T194255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230130T214641Z UID:3537-1683212400-1683216900@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Dr. Jonathan Abel: "The Invasions that Weren't: French Efforts to Invade England 1740-1805" DESCRIPTION:“The Invasions that Weren’t: French Efforts to Invade England 1740-1805”\nDr. Jonathan Abel\nThursday\, May 4\, 2023 | 3 p.m. \nBetween 1740 and 1815\, France and England fought a Second Hundred Year War for hegemony in Europe and colonial spaces. During that period\, France tried repeatedly to invade England\, but its military could never manage to land troops in large numbers. Dr. Abel will discuss why this did not happen and its immense effects on European affairs. \nDr. Jonathan Abel is an Associate Professor of Military History at the US Army Command and General Staff College\, where he teaches courses on French history as well as Greece and Rome\, and wargaming. He received his PhD from the Military History Center at the University of North Texas in 2014\, and he is the author of several works on the eighteenth-century French army. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \nThe Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics is dedicated to promoting political and civic participation as well as civil discourse in a bipartisan\, philosophically balanced manner. It is located on KU’s West Campus and houses the Dole Archive and Special Collections. Through its robust public programming\, congressional archive\, and museum\, the Dole Institute strives to celebrate public service and the legacies of US Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/dr-jonathan-abel-the-invasions-that-werent-french-efforts-to-invade-england-1740-1805/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/05.04-Ft.-Leavenworth.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230406T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230406T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20230130T194220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230130T214602Z UID:3534-1680793200-1680797700@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Dr. Lou DiMarco "Incheon 1950: The US Amphibious Invasion in the Korean War" DESCRIPTION:“Incheon 1950: The US Amphibious Invasion in the Korean War”\nDr. Lou DiMarco\nThursday\, April 6\, 2023 | 3 p.m. \nThe Inchon landings in September 1950 turned the first months of the Korean War from a national disaster in US national security policy into a great military victory of the West over Communism. It was a brilliant feat of military strategy and operations and arguably General MacArthur’s finest hour in his long career as a military commander. The Inchon operation demonstrated the incredible US military technical expertise at performing one of the most complex of all military operations: amphibious invasion. \nDr. Louis A. DiMarco retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army in 2005 after more than 24 years of active service as an armored cavalry officer. Dr. DiMarco’s civilian education includes a bachelor’s from West Point\, a master’s in military art and Science from the US Army Command and Staff College\, Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas\, a master’s in International Relations from Salve Regina University\, Rhode Island\, and a Ph.D. in History from Kansas State University. Dr. DiMarco has authored several important Army doctrinal manuals\, including FM 3-06\, Urban Operations (2002). He was a contributing author to FM 3-24\, Counterinsurgency (2006). His work has been published in numerous professional journals\, and he is the author of three books: War Horse: A History of the Military Horse and Rider (Westholme\, 2008); Concrete Hell: Modern Urban Operations from Stalingrad to Iraq (Osprey\, 2012); and Fighting Cavalry: The Tactical Evolution of the US Army’s Mechanized Cavalry in World War II (2021). \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \nThe Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics is dedicated to promoting political and civic participation as well as civil discourse in a bipartisan\, philosophically balanced manner. It is located on KU’s West Campus and houses the Dole Archive and Special Collections. Through its robust public programming\, congressional archive\, and museum\, the Dole Institute strives to celebrate public service and the legacies of US Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/dr-lou-dimarco-incheon-1950-the-us-amphibious-invasion-in-the-korean-war/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/04.06-Fort-Leavenworth.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230302T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230302T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20230130T194139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230130T214424Z UID:3531-1677769200-1677773700@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Dr. Angela Riotto: "The Union Invasion of Mississippi in 1863" DESCRIPTION:“The Union Invasion of Mississippi in 1863”\nDr. Angela Riotto\nThursday\, March 2\, 2023 | 3 p.m. \nDr. Angela Riotto will discuss the Union invasion of Mississippi as part of the Vicksburg Campaign. The city of Vicksburg was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River. After several failed attempts to capture the city from the west\, Major General Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and attacked Vicksburg from the east. This invasion eventually led to the city’s surrender on 4 July 1863. \nAngela M. Riotto is an assistant professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College\, Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas\, who specializes in the American Civil War\, prisoners of war\, and memory studies. She received her PhD in American History at the University of Akron. Before joining the faculty at DMH in 2021\, she worked as a historian on Army University Press’s Films Team\, making documentaries to teach military history and current U.S. Army doctrine. Some of her more recent publications include “‘As Happy a Man as Ever Wore ‘Confederate Grey’’: Confederate Ex-Prisoners of War and Their Narratives of Imprisonment\, 1877-1890” in Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts with University Press of Kansas was published in February 2021 and “Teaching the Army: Virtual Training Tools to Train and Educate Twenty-First Century Soldiers” in Military Review. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \nThe Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics is dedicated to promoting political and civic participation as well as civil discourse in a bipartisan\, philosophically balanced manner. It is located on KU’s West Campus and houses the Dole Archive and Special Collections. Through its robust public programming\, congressional archive\, and museum\, the Dole Institute strives to celebrate public service and the legacies of US Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/dr-angela-riotto-the-union-invasion-of-mississippi-in-1863/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/03.02-Fort-Leavenworth.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230202T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230202T161500 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20230130T194016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230130T214519Z UID:3528-1675350000-1675354500@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Dr. Bill Nance: "Brittany to the Elbe: 9th Army's Invasion of Europe in World War II" DESCRIPTION:“Brittany to the Elbe: 9th Army’s Invasion of Europe in World War II”\nDr. Bill Nance\nThursday\, February 2\, 2023 | 3 p.m. \nWhile the 1944-45 campaign to liberate France is well known in general detail\, many of the specifics are unclear. In this talk\, we will explore the liberation of Western Europe through the eyes of a lesser-known American Army that played a large\, but mostly unheralded\, role in this effort. From its activation in Brittany in September of 1944 to its final limit of advance on the Elbe River\, the US Ninth Army ground through some of the fiercest fighting of the war\, while establishing a reputation for not only good teamwork\, but doing things in a calm\, thoughtful manner. By the end of the war\, Omar Bradley would state that “unlike the noisy and bumptious Third\, or the temperamental First\, the Ninth Army remained uncommonly normal.” \nDr. William (Bill) Nance recently retired from the United States Army\, having served in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. He has taught history at the United States Military Academy and at the Command and General Staff College (CGSC). He is currently serving as a civilian Associate Professor of History at CGSC. \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series \nThe Ft. Leavenworth Series is an annual roster of lectures focusing on significant historical events\, usually with an emphasis on military history. Each lecture is presented by faculty from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth\, Kansas. Established by General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1881\, the CGSC is the graduate college for U.S. Army and sister service officers. The esteemed faculty and guests of the CGSC provide unique and captivating insights into the history of military conflict from the ancient to the modern ages at the Dole Institute of Politics. \nThe Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics is dedicated to promoting political and civic participation as well as civil discourse in a bipartisan\, philosophically balanced manner. It is located on KU’s West Campus and houses the Dole Archive and Special Collections. Through its robust public programming\, congressional archive\, and museum\, the Dole Institute strives to celebrate public service and the legacies of US Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/dr-bill-nance-brittany-to-the-elbe-9th-armys-invasion-of-europe-in-world-war-ii/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/02.02-Fort-Leavenworth.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221201T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221201T170000 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20220124T192008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221103T171541Z UID:1681-1669906800-1669914000@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Fort Leavenworth: Nate Jennings: “Countering Diverse Threats in the Republic of Texas” DESCRIPTION:From 1836 to 1845\, after gaining independence at the Battle of San Jacinto\, the Republic of Texas faced nearly insurmountable security dilemmas as it struggled to both protect and aggrandize territory across the lower Great Plains. While this included constant warfare against a variety of American Indian tribes that excelled in mobile raiding along expansive frontiers\, it also featured conventional military threats from a much more powerful and vengeful Mexico to the south. \nLTC Nathan Jennings is a US Army officer and Assistant Professor at the US Army Command and General Staff College. He is a graduate of the School of Advanced Military Studies and holds a PhD in History from the University of Kent. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/nate-jennings-countering-diverse-threats-in-the-republic-of-texas/ CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/12.1.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu LOCATION:https://youtu.be/DScRPsQw4-I END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221103T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221103T170000 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20220124T192015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221103T171230Z UID:1679-1667487600-1667494800@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Fort Leavenworth: Sean Kalic: “Espionage during the Cold War” DESCRIPTION:For the duration of the Cold War and even in the aftermath\, spies and tales of espionage have captivated the imagination. The fact that the western press occasionally found a “true” story and published its exploits only further fueled the fasciation of the clandestine exploits of the spies on both sides of the Cold War. This public fascination with the “war in the shadows” did not wither as did the Cold War itself. In fact\, as the archives of the former Soviet Union opened and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) declassified volumes of documents from their Cold War operations\, the public finally got a look behind the people\, operations\, and structure of some of the intelligence operations associated with the Cold War. \nDr. Sean N. Kalic is a Professor in the Department of Military at the US Army Command and General Staff College\, where he has taught since 2004.  He had published widely and written books on Al Qaeda\, the militarization of space\, The Russian Revolution\, and Cold War espionage. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/sean-kalic-espionage-during-the-cold-war/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/11.3.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221006T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221006T170000 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20220124T192021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220812T214853Z UID:1677-1665068400-1665075600@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Fort Leavenworth: Gates Brown: “Implications of the Korean War on US Policy” DESCRIPTION:The Korean War\, often described as the Forgotten War\, was foundational to the creation of the national defense posture that the United States maintained throughout the Cold War. After World War II\, the Truman administration quickly demobilized much of the U.S. military in an effort to return to normalcy and get the United States economy on a peacetime footing. This was similar to previous post-war periods in the United States\, where the large military force quickly returned to its peacetime form\, which was a fraction of the wartime size. This talk will discuss the implications of the Korean War both domestically and internationally. To meet this conflict\, the Truman administration restarted conscription to meet the force needs to fight the war and imposed domestic economic controls\, although to a lesser degree than those used in World War II. Internationally\, the Korean War served as a catalyst for the increase of the US military contribution to the recently created North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It also established the military character of the Cold War\, that the main kinetic aspects of the conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States would be in proxy wars while the nuclear deterrent maintained a tense status quo between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. \nGates Brown is currently an associate professor in the Department of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He received his PhD from the University of Kansas. His research interests include the early Cold War and the evolution of U.S. nuclear strategy in the late 1940s and 1950s. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/gates-brown-implications-of-the-korean-war-on-us-policy/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Gates-Brown.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220901T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220901T170000 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20220124T192026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T152239Z UID:1675-1662044400-1662051600@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Fort Leavenworth: Angela Riotto and Derek Mallett: “Prisoners of War as Military Intelligence in the Civil War and World War 2" DESCRIPTION:During the Second World War\, the US military interrogated over 3\,000 German Prisoners of War at a secret facility at Fort Hunt\, Virginia. These interrogations offer fascinating perspectives of the German situation in the final year of the war and allow us to evaluate how well American authorities knew its enemy at the time. \nDerek Mallett is currently an associate professor in the Department of Military History at the US Army Command and General Staff College\, Fort Belvoir\, Virginia satellite campus. His research interests include the Second World War\, prisoners of war\, military intelligence\, war and public memory\, and national security. \nAngela Riotto received her Ph.D. from the University of Akron. Her research examines the ways in which both U.S. and Confederate former prisoners of war discussed their captivity between 1861 and 1930. She currently teaches with the Department of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College as an Assistant Professor. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/angela-riotto-and-derek-mallett-prisoners-of-war-as-military-intelligence-in-the-civil-war-and-world-war-2/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/09.01MallettRiotto-1-e1651512698466.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220804T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220804T170000 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20220502T170839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T152239Z UID:2560-1659625200-1659632400@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Fort Leavenworth: John Kuehn: "Victory at Sea: World War 2 on Film" DESCRIPTION:Victory At Sea was one of the most celebrated television programs of its day when it was first aired on NBC beginning in 1952 and almost weekly for 26 episodes until May of 1953. Dr. Kuehn discusses its importance not only as a documentary of naval operations at World War II\, but as a reflection of the United States need for a unifying narrative of victory for the protracted conflict that the Cold War had become and promised to continue being. URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/victory-at-sea-world-war-2-on-film/ LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/08.04KuehnHeader-e1651511299470.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Dole Institute of Politics":MAILTO:doleinstitute@ku.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220728T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220728T163000 DTSTAMP:20260705T105129 CREATED:20220718T170335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220718T182258Z UID:2840-1659020400-1659025800@doleinstitute.org SUMMARY:Tony R. “Randy” Mullis\, PhD | Bleeding Kansas and British Kaffraria in the 1850s DESCRIPTION:Many Kansans are familiar with the Bleeding Kansas era of American history in context of American westward expansion. Few\, however\, may know of a comparable event of British eastward expansion that occurred in modern day South Africa (British Kaffraria) during the 1850s.  Dr. Mullis’s presentation assesses select American and British political and military approaches to expansion during the 1850s to identify “common” Western strategic approaches and legacies. \nDr. Mullis is currently a professor of military history at the Redstone Arsenal satellite campus of the US Army Command and General Staff College.  He received his PhD in History from the University of Kansas and is the author of Peacekeeping on the Plains: Army Operations in Bleeding Kansas. \nPlease note this program is Virtual only URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/tony-r-randy-mullis-phd-bleeding-kansas-and-british-kaffraria-in-the-1850s/ CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://doleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/YouTube-Ft.-Leavenworth.png LOCATION:https://youtu.be/MPuz4XTJTgY END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR