The United States Army War College (USAWC) is a United States Army, U.S. Army educational institution in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on the 500-acre (2 km²) campus of the historic Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, Carlisle Barracks. It provides graduate-level instruction to senior military officers and civilians to prepare them for senior leadership assignments and responsibilities. Each year, a number of Army Colonel (United States), colonels and Lieutenant colonel (United States), lieutenant colonels are considered by a board for admission. Approximately 800 students attend at any one time, half in a two-year-long Distance education, distance learning program, and the other half in an on-campus, full-time resident program lasting ten months. Upon completion, the college grants its graduates a master's degree in Strategic Studies. Army applicants must have already completed the Command and General Staff College, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the required Joint Professional Military Education for officers in the rank of Major (United States), major. While the Army handpicks most of the students who participate in the residential program, the student body always includes officers from the other military branches, civilians from agencies such as the United States Department of Defense, Department of Defense, United States Department of State, State Department, and National Security Agency, and officers from foreign countries who attend the program as International Fellows. The Army War College is a split-functional institution. While a great deal of emphasis is placed on research, students are also instructed in leadership, strategy, and joint-service/international operations. It is one of the senior service colleges including the Naval War College and the USAF Air War College. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Defense operates the National War College.

Mission

According to U.S. Army Regulation 10–87, the Army War College "educates and develops leaders for service at the strategic level while advancing knowledge in the global application of landpower."

History

Established from the principles learned in the Spanish–American War, the college was founded by United States Secretary of War, Secretary of War Elihu Root and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, and formally established by General Order 155 on 27 November 1901. Washington Barracks—now called Fort Lesley J. McNair—in Washington, D.C. was chosen as the site. Roosevelt attended the Freemasonry, Masonic laying of the cornerstone of Roosevelt Hall (National War College), Roosevelt Hall on 21 February 1903. The first president of the Army War College was Major General Samuel B. M. Young in July 1902 and the first students attended the college in 1904. During the presidency of Montgomery M. Macomb in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson accused students and staff of planning for taking part in an offensive war, even though the United States had not entered World War I. Wilson was unconvinced by Macomb's explanation that the college was concerned only with the intellectual growth and professional development of its students, and insisted that the school curtail its activities in order to ensure that the U.S. maintained its neutrality. The college remained at Washington Barracks until the 1940s, when it was closed due to World War II. It reopened in 1950 at Fort Leavenworth, and moved one year later to its present location.

Center for Strategic Leadership

The Center for Strategic Leadership (CSL)'s areas of emphasis are experiential education, Senior Leader education, support to Army Senior Leader research, and support to both US Army War College (USAWC) and Army Senior Leader strategic communication efforts. CSL's professional staff and Collins Hall facility host, support, develop, and conduct world-class events (workshops, symposia, conferences, games, and exercises) focused on a broad range of strategic leadership and national security issues and concepts in support of the USAWC, the Army, and the Interagency and Joint Communities.

Basic Strategic Art Program

The ''Basic Strategic Art Program'' is one of the academic programs taught at the U.S. Army War College. When the program was founded in 2003, its purpose was to provide those officers who had been newly designated into Functional Area 59 (Strategist, formerly Strategic Plans & Policy) an introduction to strategy and to the unique skills, knowledge, and attributes needed as a foundation for their progressive development as army strategists. FA 59 officers have deployed to combat since the onset of the Global War on Terror in 2001. Since then, graduates of this program served in key positions in Iraq, Afghanistan, all Unified Combatant Command, combatant commands, and at the Pentagon.

Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute

The Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) is located at the War College. The institute's mission is to serve as the U.S. Military's Center of Excellence for Stability and Peace Operations at the strategic and operational levels in order to improve military, civilian agency, international, and multinational capabilities and execution.

Army Heritage Education Center

U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center

Strategic Studies Institute

Notable alumni

* John A. Lejeune, Class of 1910 * Hunter Liggett, Class of 1910 * Samson L. Faison, Class of 1911 * Ben Hebard Fuller, Class of 1914 * John Wilson Ruckman, Class of 1915 * Walter Krueger, Class of 1921 * Charles H. Corlett, Class of 1925 * Edmund L. Gruber, Class of 1927 * Dwight D. Eisenhower, Class of 1928 * Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Class of 1929 * Roy Geiger, Class of 1929 * Oscar Griswold, Class of 1929 * Clarence R. Huebner, Class of 1929 * Lesley J. McNair, Class of 1929 * Troy H. Middleton, Class of 1929 * Franklin C. Sibert, Class of 1929 * Willis D. Crittenberger, Class of 1930 * Robert L. Eichelberger, Class of 1930 * Charles P. Hall, Class of 1930 * Jesse B. Oldendorf, Class of 1930 * Frank Jack Fletcher, Class of 1931 * William R. Schmidt, Class of 1931 * Gilbert R. Cook, Class of 1932 * Leonard T. Gerow, Class of 1932 * Wade H. Haislip, Class of 1932 * Thomas Holcomb, Class of 1932 * John P. Lucas, Class of 1932 * Alexander Patch, Alexander M. Patch, Class of 1932 * George S. Patton Jr., Class of 1932 * Frank Maxwell Andrews, Frank M. Andrews, Class of 1933 * George Kenney, Class of 1933 * Edward Almond, Class of 1934 * Omar Bradley, Class of 1934 * Ulysses S. Grant III, Class of 1934 * Lewis Blaine Hershey, Class of 1934 * Ernest N. Harmon, Class of 1934 * Jonathan M. Wainwright (general), Jonathan Wainwright, Class of 1934 * Norman Cota, Class of 1936 * John R. Hodge, Class of 1936 * Richard Marshall (general), Richard Marshall, Class of 1936 * Edward H. Brooks, Class of 1937 * Mark W. Clark, Class of 1937 * Matthew Ridgway, Class of 1937 * Walter Bedell Smith, Class of 1937 * J. Lawton Collins, Class of 1938 * Leslie Groves, Class of 1939 * Paul Ramsey Hawley, Paul R. Hawley, Class of 1939 * Hoyt Vandenberg, Class of 1939 * Anthony McAuliffe, Class of 1940 * Maxwell D. Taylor, Class of 1940 * Pedro del Valle, Class of 1940 * William Westmoreland, Class of 1951 * Bruce Palmer Jr., Class of 1952 * Creighton Abrams, Class of 1953 * Earl E. Anderson, Class of 1960 * Bernard W. Rogers, Class of 1960 * Alexander Haig, Class of 1966 * Donn A. Starry, Class of 1966 * Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Class of 1973 * Lewis Sorley, Class of 1973 * George Joulwan, Class of 1978 * John M. Shalikashvili, Class of 1978 * Gordon R. Sullivan, Class of 1978 * Muhammadu Buhari (Nigerian Army, President of Nigeria), Class of 1980 * William W. Hartzog, Class of 1981 * Richard Myers, Class of 1981 * Clara Leach Adams-Ender, Class of 1982 * Donald Fowler, Class of 1983 * Thomas E. White, Class of 1984 * W. Patrick Lang, Class of 1985 * Tommy Franks, Class of 1985 * James Peake, Class of 1988 * Lance L. Smith, Class of 1990 * Abdulkadir Sheikh Dini (Somali Armed Forces, Somali Army), Class of 1990 * William G. Boykin, Class of 1991 * John Kimmons, Class of 1995 * Raymond T. Odierno, Class of 1995 * Lloyd Austin, Class of 1996 * Vijay Kumar Singh (Indian Army), Class of 2001 * Frank Corte Jr., Frank J. Corte, Jr., Class of 2002 * Parami Kulatunga (Sri Lankan Army), Class of 2003 * Jeffrey W. Talley, Class of 2003 * Bikram Singh (general), Bikram Singh, (Indian Army), Class of 2004 * Joe Heck, Class of 2006 * Jeronim Bazo, (Albanian Armed Forces, Chief of the Albanian General Staff) Class of 2006 * Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, (Egyptian Army, President of Egypt) Class of 2006 * Paul M. Nakasone, Class of 2007 * Rizwan Akhtar (Pakistani Army) (Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)), Class of 2008 * Doug Mastriano, Class of 2010 * Naveed Mukhtar (Pakistani Army) (Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)), Class of 2011 * Dany Fortin, Class of 2016

References

External links and sources

Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College
– the college's strategic and security research facility
Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute websiteUS Military Strategists AssociationStrategic Experiential Education Group
– the college's Strategic Experiential Education Group
The College's quarterly refereed journal
(''Parameters (journal), Parameters''), for senior military professionals
U. S. Army heraldic entitlements
for the War College
''What Is the War College, Anyway?''
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