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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220728T150000
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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
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SUMMARY:Fort Leavenworth: Ethan Rafuse: “Hybrid War in the Shenandoah in 1864”
DESCRIPTION:Defense analysts have identified the emergence of “hybrid warfare” as a compelling threat to American national security and declared it one of the more notable developments of the first decade of the 21st century. Of course\, while the label may be new\, hybrid warfare is not new in the human experience. This talk will discuss Union operations in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864\, using it as a case study of a specific campaign in the Civil War where both conventional and unconventional operations were significant factors. It examines Sheridan’s efforts\, the particular dynamics and challenges he confronted\, and the factors that enabled him to prevail. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/ethan-rafuse-hybrid-war-in-the-shenandoah-in-1864/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220407T150000
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SUMMARY:Dave Mills: “Bread for my Enemies: US Aid to Germany after World War 2”
DESCRIPTION:The greatest challenge to peace in Western Europe immediately after World War Two was the possibility that the people themselves would vote in Communist governments\, primarily due to hunger. This presentation will demonstrate the challenges and the extent to which the American government fed Germany and other nations for both humanitarian and anticommunist reasons between 1945 and 1948. \nDave Mills is an associate professor at the United States Army Command and General Staff College\, located at Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas\, where he teaches military history to senior Captains and Majors from each branch of the military. He holds a Ph.D from North Dakota State University\, and is the author of three books on military and Cold War history. His current research project is entitled\, Bread for My Enemies: Feeding Germany from the Fall of Hitler to the Marshall Plan. He has been married to his wife\, Ann\, for almost 30 years\, and they have three grown sons.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/dave-mills-bread-for-my-enemies-us-aid-to-germany-after-world-war-2/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:Rich Barbuto: “Defending New York City in the Early Republic”
DESCRIPTION:“Defending New York City in the Early Republic”\nRich Barbuto\nThursday\, March 3\, 2022 | 3 p.m.\nDuring the American Revolution\, New York City was occupied by the British. Thereafter\, the city soon became the largest port of the new republic. Threatened again as tensions with Britain reached a fevered pitch\, federal\, state\, and local authorities moved quickly to build fortifications and mobilize the citizenry to guard land and sea approaches. In 1814\, believing the city too strong to assault\, the British chose instead to attack Washington\, D.C. and Baltimore. \nRich Barbuto served as an armor officer for twenty-three years. He earned a Ph.D. from KU and was the deputy director of the Department of Military History for twelve years. Rich has written several books on the War of 1812 and is a frequent speaker at conferences and public venues.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/rich-barbuto-defending-new-york-city-in-the-early-republic/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Abel: “France and Corsica: The Range of Military Operations”
DESCRIPTION:“France and Corsica: The Range of Military Operations”\nDr. Jonathan Abel\nWednesday\, February 2 | 3 p.m.\nVIRTUAL EVENT ONLY \nMost students of French history know Corsica as Napoleon’s birthplace\, but France’s involvement on the island stretched throughout the eighteenth century.  Dr. Abel’s talk will illustrate how France conducted activities across the range of military operations on the island\, from counterinsurgency to large-scale combat and stability operations\, both in support of Genoa and as ruler of the island itself. \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 U.S. Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/jonathan-abel-france-and-corsica-the-range-of-military-operations/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:Kennan and Nitze: Early Cold War Theorists
DESCRIPTION:Ft. Leavenworth: Kennan and Nitze: Early Cold War Theorists\nGates Brown and Dave Mills\nDecember 2\, 2021 | 3 p.m. \nBrown and Mills will discuss two of the most influential Cold War theoriest: George Kennan and Paul Nitze\, who were exact opposites in strategy and outlook. Kennan was a realist who believed the U.S. should eliminate its arsenal of nuclear weapons. His guiding philosophy was that an individual or a nation that desired peace should act peacefully\, although his opinions on dealing with the U.S.S.R. ironically led to the most aggressive foreign policy in American history. Nitze was a hawk who advocated a more assertive role in foreign affairs\, believing that if a nation desired peace\, it should prepare for war. More than any other American\, Nitze was responsible for the arms race between the two superpowers throughout the Cold War. \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 U.S. Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/ft-leavenworth-kennan-and-nitze-early-cold-war-theorists/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:Vo Nguyen Giap and Le Duan: Vietnam’s Victors
DESCRIPTION:Ft. Leavenworth: Vo Nguyen Giap and Le Duan: Vietnam’s Victors\nMartin Clemis\nNovember 4\, 2021 | 3 p.m. \nBetween 1945 and 1975\, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam fought and won two major conflicts against tremendous odds: one against France and the other against the U.S. and its South Vietnamese ally. The architects of these incredible victories were General Vo Nguyen Giap\, the commander of the North Vietnamese Army\, and Le Duan\, the General Secretary of the Vietnam Worker’s Party. Although they both utilized a hybrid politico-military approach that synthesized conventional war\, guerrilla warfare\, and mass politics\, they each pursued a unique variation of communist revolutionary warfare. In this lecture\, Clemis will discuss how these men and their theories of war carried the communists to victory in Vietnam\, and in doing so\, brought the most far reaching and consequential conflict of the Cold War to a conclusion. \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 U.S. Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/ft-leavenworth-vo-nguyen-giap-and-le-duan-vietnams-victors/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211007T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211007T150000
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SUMMARY:Pre-World War I French Military Doctrine and its Consequences
DESCRIPTION:Ft. Leavenworth: Pre-World War I French Military Doctrine and its Consequences\nRichard Faulkner\nOctober 7\, 2021 | 3 p.m. \nIn the years prior to World War I\, the French military wrestled with how to defend itself against a larger\, more industrialized foe. Like the Great War’s other major combatants\, the French pre-war doctrine proved to be ill-suited to meet the realities of the 1914 battlefield. This lecture will examine the factors that influenced the French Army’s pre-war doctrine\, how the army envisioned fighting “the next great war\,” and how it adapted its tactical strategy from 1915 to 1918\, after its peacetime doctrine failed to secure France’s hope for victory in 1914. \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 U.S. Senators Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/ft-leavenworth-pre-world-war-i-french-military-doctrine-and-its-consequences/
LOCATION:The Dole Institute of Politics\, 2350 Petefish Drive\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66045\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:Aerospace Theory
DESCRIPTION:In the late 1940s the U.S. Air Force embraced the use of space as a natural extension of its traditional air power mission. As such\, they envisioned air and space mediums converging into a single operational domain. Dr. Kalic will lecture on the U.S. Air Force’s development of the Aerospace concept in the period 1946-1963. \nDr. Sean N. Kalic is a Cold War historian. He lectures and publishes widely on topics such as the interwar period 1919-1939\, the Cold War\, the post-Cold War security environment\, and transnational terrorism. 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). He has presented lectures for the U.S. Naval War College\, The Slovenian General Staff\, and numerous international conferences. 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. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/aerospace-theory/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:Mikhail Tukhachevsky\, Soviet Theory\, and Operational Warfare
DESCRIPTION:After WWII\, many historians\, as well as military theorists and leaders\, focused on the German ability to restore mobility to warfare\, especially at the operational level\, in the early years of the war. Popularized as “Blitzkrieg\,” the Germans were often portrayed as the pioneers of this new form of warfare—far ahead of all other nations in 1939-40. However\, this view overlooks the tremendously far-sighted Operational doctrine of the Soviet Union that had reached a high degree of development. Building on some earlier Tsarist era examples (Suvorov\, Brusilov)\, a crop of Soviet military leaders emerged from their own Civil with fresh ideas for the future of warfare. Along with other prescient theorists (for example\, Frunze\, Svechin\, Triandifillov\, and Isserson)\, Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky developed a doctrine of the operational art that reached a high-point with the publication of the Red Army’s Provisional Field Regulations of 1936. The regulations posited a doctrine of deep battle far ahead of German doctrine at the time. Sadly for the Soviets\, most of the great wave of new thinkers\, to include Tukahchevsky\, were executed in Stalin’s purges before WWII\, and the doctrine was watered down. \nDr. Curtis S. King is an associate professor for the Staff Ride Team\, Combat Studies Institute\, Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1982 with a B.S. in History and English Literature. After various assignments\, Dr. King returned to the Military Academy as an instructor in 1992. In 1998\, he became a professor at the Combat Studies Institute (CSI). While at CSI\, Dr. King received his Ph.D in Russian and Soviet history (1998) from the University of Pennsylvania and spent a 6-month tour in Sarajevo\, Bosnia (1999-2000) as a NATO historian. Dr. King retired from the Army in May 2002. In October 2002\, he was hired to the staff ride team of CSI as a civilian associate professor and is an adjunct professor at Kansas State University. He has published numerous articles and entries to edited works on a wide variety of military history topics. \nSubmit your questions for Dr. King to dolequestions@ku.edu for the question-and-answer portion of the program. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/mikhail-tukhachevsky-soviet-theory-and-operational-warfare/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:The Six Secret Teachings of Jiang Ziya
DESCRIPTION:The Six Secret Teachings of Jiang Ziya (Ta’i Kung) is the oldest of China’s Seven Military Classics. This foundational work from the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BCE) period purports to have originated more than five centuries before Sun Tzu (544-496 BCE). The six teachings are a record of conversations between Jiang and the future Zhou Kings Wen and Wu on defeating the Shang Dynasty. This book on civil-military relations\, organizing\, manning\, and fighting forces\, is attributed to Jiang Ziya\, who is purported to be China’s first general officer and strategist. This presentation explores the key themes and military advice offered in the six books\, with comparisons to Sun Tzu and suggestions on how this work might influence a modern Chinese Way of War. \nDr. Geoff Babb was commissioned from Bowdoin College in Brunswick\, Maine in 1973 as a US Army Military Intelligence Officer. After serving in the Defense Intelligence Agency as a ground forces analyst\, he was assigned to Monterey\, California\, Hong Kong\, and Beijing for language and area studies. He was then assigned to Joint and Army Headquarters in Hawaii. In 1991\, he joined the Command and General Staff College faculty at Fort Leavenworth. After retiring from the military\, he earned a Masters in East Asian Languages and Cultures\, and a Doctorate in History from the University of Kansas. He has published numerous book chapters and articles on China and Asia. He currently serves as a professor in the Department of Military History as its China hand. \nSubmit your questions for Dr. Babb to dolequestions@ku.edu for the question-and-answer portion of the program. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming.
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/the-six-secret-teachings-of-jiang-ziya/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:Donn Starry\, Active Defense\, and Airland Battle
DESCRIPTION:After the Vietnam War\, the US Army refocused itself on its primary peacetime mission since the end of the Second World War: the defense of NATO. However\, the Army leadership had to face the reality that the US Army was not capable of accomplishing this mission. In 1973\, the US Army did not have the trained personnel\, the technology\, or the fighting doctrine to defeat the Warsaw Pact forces led by the Soviet Union\, should those forces decide to invade the West. Over the next fifteen years that situation changed dramatically as the US Army and its NATO allies rebuild their capabilities first to counter a Soviet-led invasion of the West\, and by the end of the Cold War\, defeat the Warsaw Pact. Central to this rebirth of capability was the US Army warfighting doctrine of “Airland Battle.” General Donn Starry was at the center of the intellectual effort that created the Airland Battle doctrine\, and the training programs and technology that enabled it. The effectiveness of the Army’s efforts was a major contributor to the end of the Cold War\, and the great allied victory in Operation Desert Storm that followed immediately afterward. \nSubmit your questions for Dr. Louis DiMarco to dolequestions@ku.edu for the question-and-answer portion of the program. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/donn-starry-active-defense-and-airland-battle/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:Denis Mahan and the Foundations of American Theory
DESCRIPTION:During the first half of the nineteenth century\, no military thinker arguably had more impact on the United States Army than Denis Hart Mahan. By the time he graduated at the top of his class at West Point in 1824\, Mahan had become a protégé of Superintendent Sylvanus Thayer\, whose wide-ranging reforms would win him recognition as “Father of the Military Academy.” In 1830\, Mahan accepted appointment as Professor of Civil and Military Engineering at West Point and carried his mentor’s work forward in the decades that followed. Mahan’s writings and influence on the officers who\, after surviving “Old Cobbon Sense’s” classroom\, would dominate the Army nearly to the end of the 19th century made him one of the most important figures in the evolution of American warfare. This talk will describe Mahan’s life\, his role in shaping the military academy\, the ideas that he promoted in the army\, and his place in the American military experience. \nSubmit your questions for Dr. Rafuse to dolequestions@ku.edu for the question-and-answer portion of the program. \nThis program is closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \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. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/denis-mahan-and-the-foundations-of-american-theory/
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SUMMARY:John Boyd and Air Power Theory
DESCRIPTION:Brash. Brilliant. Pompous. Ground-breaking. The list goes on but fails to capture the drive\, the talent\, the intellectual horsepower\, or the creativity of Colonel (R) John Boyd\, USAF. There are many scholars and Boyd fans who contend that Boyd is the greatest military theorist that you have never heard of\, but should have. Throughout his storied\, if tumultuous career\, Boyd developed a well-earned reputation for identifying problems of air combat\, aircraft design\, and military strategy and generating powerful solutions\, which usually challenged the system\, existing norms\, and business as usual\, but always advanced military theory and ideas. This presentation will explore John Boyd the person\, his intellectual processes\, and his ideas to better understand his contribution to strategy and warfighting. \nDuring the event\, submit your questions for Mr. Johnson to dolequestions@ku.edu for the question-and-answer portion of the program. \nThis program is closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nChristopher Johnson\nChristopher Johnson is an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth\, KS\, where he teaches in the Department of Military History. He served for over 31 years as an officer in the U.S. Army with operational tours throughout the Middle East\, Europe\, and Asia. Johnson is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City\, focusing on the U.S. Occupation of Japan after World War II. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/john-boyd-and-air-power-theory/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210204T000000
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SUMMARY:ISIS\, Abu Bakr Naji\, and the Management of Savagery
DESCRIPTION:Al-Qaeda and ISIS used the Management of Savagery as both an operational concept and doctrine. Written for al-Qaeda in 2004\, but demonstrated most thoroughly by ISIS from 2014 to 2021\, the online published work explains how Islamist ideological groups hoped to defeat the West\, in general\, and the United States\, in specific. This presentation explains the main themes of the work and how it was put into practice. \nDuring the event\, submit your questions for Dr. Steed to dolequestions@ku.edu for the question-and-answer portion of the program. \nThis program is closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nBrian L. Steed\nBrian L. Steed is a retired US Army lieutenant colonel with more than thirty years of civilian and uniformed experience. He is a practitioner\, student\, and writer of military theory\, Middle East culture\, and history. Brian is an associate professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College where he was the 2018 Military Educator of the Year. He is also a senior fellow at Narrative Strategies. As an Army officer\, he was a Middle East foreign area officer\, which included eight and a half consecutive years living and working in the Middle East\, to include assignments in Jordan\, Israel\, Iraq\, and the United Arab Emirates. Brian holds a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in political science and history. Brian has written and edited numerous books\, articles\, and papers on military theory\, military history\, and cultural awareness. His most recent books include ISIS: The Essential Reference Guide\, Iraq War: The Essential Reference Guide\, ISIS: An Introduction and Guide to the Islamic State\, Voices of the Iraq War: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life (Voices of an Era)\, and Bees and Spiders: Applied Cultural Awareness and the Art of Cross-Cultural Influence. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/isis-abu-bakr-naji-and-the-management-of-savagery/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:The Medieval Theory of John of Salisbury
DESCRIPTION:John of Salisbury (died 1180) was a prolific and erudite English writer. Dubbed “the best classical scholar of his age\,” he was clerk to St. Thomas Becket of Canterbury and\, later\, became the bishop of Chartres. Among his numerous works is the book Policraticus\, which\, despite its fame as a political and moral treatise\, has been virtually ignored by military historians. More’s the pity: Policraticus was read by military commanders and strategists into the 18th century and contained concepts on generalship\, logistics\, pay\, discipline\, training\, and the military-state relationship that appeared in later–and purportedly innovative–treatises by such later writers as Thomas Aquinas\, Christine de Pizan\, Niccolò Machiavelli\, and Justus Lipsius. In this talk\, Professor John D. Hosler will survey the martial content in John of Salisbury’s writings and explain how he serves as the medieval bridge between ancient and early-modern military theory. \nSubmit your questions for Dr. Hosler to dolesocial@ku.edu for the question and answer portion of the program. \nThis event is closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nJohn D. Hosler (Ph.D.\, University of Delaware) is Professor of Military History at the Command and General Staff College and an expert in warfare in medieval Europe and the Middle East. He is the author of sixty articles and book reviews and author or editor of six books: the forthcoming Seven Myths of Military History (Hackett); Military Cultures and Martial Enterprises in the Middle Ages (2020); The Siege of Acre\, 1189-1191 (2018)\, which was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year; Where Heaven and Earth Meet (2013); John of Salisbury: Military Authority of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (2012); and Henry II: a Medieval Soldier at War (2007). He currently serves as the President of De Re Militari: the Society for Medieval Military History and a Trustee of the United States Commission for Military History\, and he is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/the-medieval-theory-of-john-of-salisbury/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201203T000000
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SUMMARY:The Battle of Ramadi\, 2006
DESCRIPTION:The Battle of Ramadi in 2006-07 is one of the lesser-known but arguably one of the fiercest and the most decisive battle of the Iraq War. This battle marked a change in the US understanding of the war in Iraq and the adoption of highly controversial and effective tactics that reflected that changed understanding. The Battle of Ramadi would become the model for what came to be called “The Sunni Awakening\,” and for General Petraeus’s “Surge” strategy which was implemented two years later. It foretold a very sophisticated understanding of counter-insurgency which ultimately led to military success in Iraq. \nThis program is closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \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. His military assignments include cavalry troop command\, instructor at the US Army Armor School\, and staff assignments at all levels from Division through Joint Headquarters. Dr. DiMarco’s civilian education includes a Bachelor of Science Degree from the United States Military Academy\, West Point\, NY\, a Masters in Military Art and Science from the US Army Command and Staff College\, Fort Leavenworth Kansas\, a Masters of Arts Degree 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). Dr. DiMarco has written and lectured on a variety of military affairs topics including military government and civil affairs\, armored cavalry and reconnaissance\, urban warfare\, and counterinsurgency. His work has been published by the Association of the U.S. Army\, the Combat Studies Institute\, and a variety of professional journals including Armor\, Military Review\, Proceedings\, the Small Wars Journal\, Parameters\, and the Global War Studies Journal. He is also the author of the booklet Military Operations and the Middle Eastern City (Combat Studies Institute\, 2003)\, and two books: War Horse: A History of the Military Horse and Rider (Westholme\, 2008); and Concrete Hell: Modern Urban Operations from Stalingrad to Iraq (Osprey\, 2012). His most recent work\, Concrete Hell\, has been translated into numerous foreign languages\, used as a text at the US\, German and Republic of Korea Staff and War Colleges\, is listed on the Army Chief of Staff’s Professional Reading List\, and is considered a seminal work on this subject. \nDr. DiMarco is married to retired Army Colonel Joyce DiMarco who teaches leadership at the US Army Command and General Staff College\, and they have two daughters\, both serving in the military: one is an intelligence officer in the US Air Force stationed at Offit AFB\, Nebraska\, and the other is an Army Physician’s Assistant assigned to the Aviation Brigade\, 1st Infantry Division\, Fort Riley\, Kansas. He lives on a 56-acre farm in Leavenworth County\, Kansas\, with his wife Joyce\, four dogs\, five horses\, and a John Deere tractor. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/the-battle-of-ramadi-2006/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:Spring 1944: The Turning Point in the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II
DESCRIPTION:In the spring of 1944\, the conflict in the China-Burma-India Theater (CBI) began to turn in favor of the Allies. The Japanese\, in two offensives: ICHIGO (Operation Number 1) in China; and\, U-GO (Operation C) in India\, endeavored to take China out of the war and drive the British from India. General William Slim’s 14th Army successfully defended at Kohima and Imphal and quickly launched a counterattack into Burma. General Joseph Stilwell’s forces from the Chinese Army in India supported this effort along with Orde Wingate’s Chindits and American advised Chinese forces from Y-Force headquartered in Kunming. In China\, Chiang Kai-shek’s forces eventually turned the tide on the Japanese attempt to knock out airfields in China capable of hitting the mainland and secure a landline of communication from Korea to Southeast Asia. The final Allied victory in mainland Asia began with the destruction of Japanese forces in China\, Burma\, and India in the spring of 1944. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nDr. Geoff Babb \nDr. Joseph G. D. (Geoff) Babb is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel currently serving as an Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas. Dr. Babb holds a BA from Bowdoin College\, a MPA from Clark University\, a MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Kansas. Dr. Babb served as a China Foreign Area Officer educated in Hong Kong and Beijing. He served in Washington D.C. at the Defense Intelligence Agency and on the Joint Staff. He also was a regional desk officer in Hawaii at US Pacific and Army Pacific Commands. He has written on the American military’s role in China in Volumes I and II of Through the Joint\, Interagency\, and Multinational Lens: Perspectives on the Operational Environment. His most recent publication is a chapter on the Korea War published in Weaving the Tangled Web; Military Deception in Large-Scale Combat Operations issued by Army University Press. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/spring-1944-the-turning-point-in-the-china-burma-india-theater-in-world-war-ii/
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SUMMARY:Seven Days in September 1814: The Turning Points of the War of 1812
DESCRIPTION:The British demands in mid-1814 were fierce and would have reduced the United States in size and limited its potential for expansion. The United States had declared war on Great Britain in 1812 because the British were seizing American merchant ships and cargoes\, taking crewmen into the Royal Navy involuntarily\, and providing arms to Native Americans on the frontier. However\, American armies had lost battle after battle with little potential to accomplish the nation’s war goals. The British negotiating position at Ghent was to create an Indian buffer state north of the Ohio River\, take about half of Maine\, and demilitarize the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. They had captured Fort Niagara\, occupied 100 miles of the coast of Maine\, and burned Washington. Then\, in one week in September 1814\, the U.S. defended Baltimore (its 3rd largest city) and won the battle of Plattsburgh in New York. Two thousand soldiers besieged in Fort Erie broke out and pushed the British back 20 miles. After that\, Duke Wellington advised the British government to drop any claims for territory and negotiate a settlement. British prospects for a decisive victory were not propitious and the war was very expensive. The British cabinet reluctantly agreed and the treaty was signed on Christmas Eve. The three American victories\, “Seven Days in September\,” were a turning point of the war and set America back on the course of greatness. \nThis program is closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. \nThis special program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and to its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nRich Barbuto was raised on the shores of Lake Erie in New York State. Graduating from West Point in 1971\, he served as an armor officer for twenty-three years in Germany\, Korea\, Canada\, and other U.S. posts. Rich took an early interest in military education and taught at the Armor School\, ROTC at Eastern Kentucky University\, the Canadian Forces Staff College in Toronto\, and the Command and General Staff College. He earned a Ph.D. in American History from KU and was the deputy director of the Department of Military History at CGSC for twelve years. Rich has written several books and numerous articles on the War of 1812 and is a frequent speaker at history conferences and public venues. Rich continues researching and writing military history; his fourth book is in the publication process with the University Press of Oklahoma. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/seven-days-in-september-1814-the-turning-points-of-the-war-of-1812/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:1979: The Turning Point of the Cold War
DESCRIPTION:President Carter had a visceral dislike of the CIA and its use of covert missions. However\, he overcame his initial perception when he saw an opportunity to use the CIA and its covert action as a means to increase the pressure on the political and social systems of the Soviet Union. Using the tenets of the Helsinki Accords as a means to advance the cause of human rights and civil liberties\, Carter used the CIA as a critical tool to support the Solidarity Movement in Poland\, as well as the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Though credit for these efforts tends to fall to the presidency of Ronald Reagan\, it was\, in fact\, President Carter\, who saw this unique opportunity to pressure the Soviet Union on its human rights record. Carter’s efforts represent a critical turning point in the last decade of the Cold War. \nThis program will be live-streamed to the institute’s YouTube channel and its website\, www.doleinstitute.org. Due to continuing concerns regarding the novel coronavirus pandemic\, the program will only be available online. Follow the Dole Institute on Facebook\, Instagram\, or Twitter for updates regarding this and future programming. \nDr. Sean N. Kalic\nKalic\, a Professor in the Department of Military History at the US Army’s Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas\, where he has taught since 2004\, is a Cold War scholar\, who has written on the militarization of space\, the global war on terrorism\, US space policy\, Cold War espionage\, and the Russian Revolution. Additionally\, he has presented lectures for the Slovenian General Staff\, the Slovenian Command and General Staff College\, the US Naval War College\, and the US Army’s Futures Study Group. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/1979-the-turning-point-of-the-cold-war/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:The Battle of Shiloh\, the Turning Point of the American Civil War
DESCRIPTION:Civil War fans often point to Antietam or Gettysburg as the turning point of the war\, but overlooked is the night of April 6\, 1862\, when Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee was teetering on the edge of annihilation on the banks of the Tennessee River. The day had begun with a surprise attack by Confederate forces near Shiloh Church and had witnessed the heaviest fighting of the war to date\, through places like the Hornets’ Nest and Hell’s Hollow. That evening\, Grant’s subordinates all advised an immediate retreat\, but he chose to stay and fight\, a decision that resulted in the most significant turning point of the Civil War. \nWatch the live-stream of this program on our YouTube channel. \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. His recent publications include A General Who Will Fight: The Leadership of Ulysses S. Grant (University Press of Kentucky\, 2013)\, and as co-editor\, The Art of Command: American Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell (University Press of Kentucky\, 2nd ed.\, 2017). From 2013 to 2014 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Ireland at Maynooth. In 2017 he was selected as the Educator of the Year in Department of Military History at the Staff College. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/the-battle-of-shiloh-the-turning-point-of-the-american-civil-war/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:Barbarossa’s Siege of Rome\, 1167: The Turning Point for Medieval Italy
DESCRIPTION:In an effort to thwart the ambitions of his political rivals\, the Hohenstaufen ruler Frederick Barbarossa invaded Italy in 1167 with the goal of driving all the way to Sicily. Following successful sieges in northern Italy\, he took his army to Rome: he captured the city on July 24 and then stirred its citizens into revolt against Pope Alexander III\, who was forced to flee to Benevento. Six days later\, Barbarossa installed an antipope (Paschal III) on St. Peter’s throne\, and Paschal\, in return\, crowned him Holy Roman Emperor. Matters abruptly changed thereafter. A destructive storm and widespread plague ultimately drove the emperor out of Rome and back north\, into the waiting arms of the Lombard League\, a coalition of sixteen Italian cities that had formed an alliance against him. What followed was a series of military defeats and humiliating near-captures as Barbarossa frantically tried to escape to Saxony. It was the beginning of the end of imperial control over northern Italy: in 1176\, the Lombard League decisively defeated Barbarossa at the Battle of Legnano\, and in 1183 he granted its members the right to self-governance. In the following century\, the Italian Renaissance was born in these independent states. \nThis program will be live on our YouTube channel. \nJohn D. Hosler is an Associate Professor of Military History at the Command and General Staff College. An expert in medieval warfare\, he is the author of The Siege of Acre\, 1189-1191: Saladin\, Richard the Lionheart\, and the Battle that Decided the Third Crusade\, which was named a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/barbarossas-siege-of-rome-1167-the-turning-point-for-medieval-italy/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:1941: The Turning Point in the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Few years in modern history have been as eventful as 1941. For most Americans\, the December 7 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor resonates as the year’s signal event\, an action that thrust the United States into World War II. For the Soviet Union and its clients\, Operation Barbarossa\, the sudden Nazi attack of June 22\, earns the distinction as the most eventful\, as the Wehrmacht turned its mechanized might onto its erstwhile ally. 1941 also marked the beginning of the Shoah\, the designed destruction of the Jews of Europe. During the 1930s\, Hitler’s regime had applied ever-increasing methods of persecution onto the Jews of Germany and other European countries as they were occupied. Before 1941\, the Nazi actions were primarily designed to dispossess the Jews of their wealth and compel their emigration. Coincident with Barbarossa\, however\, persecution turned into a more generalized European slaughter; it was the great turning point in the Holocaust. \nThis program will stream live on our YouTube channel. \nDave Cotter is the Director of the Department of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas. He has been a faculty member since 2009 and was previously a member of the Department of History at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. He has an M.A. in History from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst\, an M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College\, and an M.A. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Gratz College. In addition to the history curriculum\, he is active in the Genocide and Mass Atrocities Studies Seminar at the Staff College. In the past year\, he has made genocide-related presentations to the Society for Military History\, the Watson Institute at Brown University\, the Dole Institute of Politics\, and the Naval War College. Dave is a retired military officer with 32 years of experience\, including multiple combat deployments and command at battery\, battalion\, and brigade levels. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/1941-the-turning-point-in-the-holocaust/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:Guadalcanal\, 1942: The Turning Point of the Pacific Theater in World War II
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kuehn’s talk will dispute the claim that the Battle of Midway is the turning point of the Pacific War and offer an argument that the campaign on Guadalcanal from August 1942 to early February 1943 constitutes the actual turning point in the war. This presentation examines the campaign from this vantage point and emphasizes how what began as the seizure of an undefended island airfield turned into a war of attrition on land\, sea\, and air between the Empire of Japan and the United States and its allies. \nDr. John T. Kuehn is Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He retired from the U.S. Navy in 2004 at the rank of commander after 23 years\, serving as a naval flight officer 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\, A Military History of Japan: From the Age of the Samurai to the 21st Century\, Napoleonic Warfare: The Operational Art of the Great Campaigns\, and co-authored Eyewitness Pacific Theater 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. 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. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/guadalcanal-1942-the-turning-point-of-the-pacific-theater-in-world-war-ii/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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SUMMARY:The Aisne-Marne Counteroffensive\, 1918: The Turning Point of World War I
DESCRIPTION:Although the turning points of the American Civil War and World War II occurred in the middle of those conflicts\, the outcome of the Great War was not decided until the last months of the war. The Ludendorff Offensives had pushed both sides into a deadly race against time that pitted German tactical successes against the ability of the Americans to arrive in sufficient numbers to give the Allies the crucial edge. The lecture will discuss how the Franco-American victory at Aisne-Marne changed the course of the war and convinced Ferdinand Foch that the strategic and operational advantage in the conflict had decisively shifted to the Allied cause. \nThis program is free and open to the public. No ticket is required. \nDr. Richard S. Faulkner is the William A. Stofft Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. 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\, 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 received the World War I Association’s 2017 Norman B. Tomlinson\, Jr. Prize for the best work of history in English on World War I\, 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. \n 
URL:https://doleinstitute.org/event/the-aisne-marne-counteroffensive-1918-the-turning-point-of-world-war-i/
CATEGORIES:Ft. Leavenworth Series
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