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9 unusual facts about Army War College


Armchair general

Dwight D. Eisenhower who had enlisted in 1911 was assigned to the Army War College and graduated in 1928 never served in combat, even during World War I holding mostly staff positions afterwards.

Army War College

Army War College, Mhow, an institution of the Indian Army, located in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh

Bonner Fellers

Fellers graduated the Army War College in 1939 and was promoted to major on July 1, 1940.

Chryshantha De Silva

He has undertaken training at PLA Nanjing Army Command College; Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies and at the Army War College, Mhow.

Franklin C. Sibert

After the War, Sibert attended the Infantry School at Fort Benning in 1924, the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in 1925 and Army War College in 1929.

George Lewis Gillespie, Jr.

He had charge of ceremonies at President William McKinley's funeral and at the laying of the cornerstone of the Army War College Building in 1903.

Harry J. Malony

In 1935, he attended the Army War College and subsequently became a Member of the Field Artillery Board.

Tasker H. Bliss

On 15 August 1903 Brigadier General Bliss was appointed a member of the General Staff, Chief, 3rd Division and President of the Army War College.

While serving as Chief, Collector of Customs for the Island of Cuba and the Port of Havana he was also the President of the Commission to Revise the Cuban Tariff Treaty in 1901 and was appointed to the Army War College Board as Special Envoy to Cuba to negotiate the treaty ratification in November and December 1902.


Ahmad Faruqui

He has taught economics at the University of California - Davis, San Jose State University, and Karachi University and lectured on national security issues at the Army War College, Naval Postgraduate School, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Henry Aurand

During his military career he went on to attend the Army Ordnance School (1916), the Command and Staff College (1928), the Army War College (1931), and the Army Industrial College (1940).

John J. Garstka

In addition, he has lectured at Harvard University, Georgetown University, the University of California at Irvine, University of Maryland, the Army War College, the Air War College, the Naval War College, and the Naval Postgraduate School.

Marshall Formby

Sharleen taught at the Army War College in Washington, D.C., and later attended the University of Texas Graduate School, where she studied radio communication.

Nancy Elizabeth Brown

Upon completing this XO tour, Vice Adm. Brown was enrolled in the Senior Course at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Palm Center

Palm scholars have delivered briefings and lectures at the British Ministry of Defence, the United States Military Academy at West Point, the United States Naval Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, the Army War College and the National Defense University.


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Abdulkadir Sheikh Dini

In 1989, Dini continued his military studies in the United States, where he attended the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, whose alumni include Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alexander Haig and Tommy Franks.

Carlisle Barracks

Two specialized agencies evolved into integral parts of the Army War College: the Strategic Studies Institute, first formed in 1954; and the Military History Institute, established in 1967.

David Glantz

Upon his return to the United States in 1979, he became chief of research at the Army’s newly formed Combat Studies Institute (CSI) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from 1979 to 1983 and then Director of Soviet Army Operations at the Center for Land Warfare, U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 1983 to 1986.

Three crows

In the Kwantung Army of Imperial Japan for instance, the Three Crows refer to the Triumvirate of Army War College 24th class graduate Kenji Doihara, Army War College 28th class graduate Itagaki Seishiro and Army War College 30th class Military Sword Club member Kanji Ishiwara: the main masterminds of the Mukden Incident and the subsequent Invasion of China.