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2 unusual facts about War College


Pakistan Navy Engineering College

The school does not offers military Staff or war courses but instead, the schools concentrated to developed the science and technological applications for the government and the armed forces of the country.

Vasily Vladimirovich Dolgorukov

After Anna Ioanovna's coronation in 1730, Dolgoroukov was appointed to Senate and made president of War College.


Any Bonds Today?

Barry Wood introduced the song (along with another Berlin composition called "Arms for the Love of America") on Arsenal Day, June 10, 1941, at the War College in Washington, D.C.; he also recorded the song in the same week for RCA Victor.


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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.

Advanced Base Force

The earliest scholars and missionaries of the Navy War College were Dion Williams, Eli K. Cole, John H. Russell, and Robert H. Dunlap, all who pioneered the advanced base force concept since the very beginning.

Aydoğan Babaoğlu

After his graduation from the Air War College in 1976, Babaoğlu has been assigned to the 4th Main Jet Base in Ankara, where he served in different positions including Squadron Commander.

Ben Hebard Fuller

From November 1920 to July 1922, he served on the staff of the Naval War College, Newport, and from July 1922 to January 1923, commanded the Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia.

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.

Charles Stockton

Hattendorf, John B., "Rear Admiral Charles Stockton, The Naval War College and the Law of Naval Warfare" in Green, Leslie C., and Schmitt, Michael N., eds.

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.

Faruk Cömert

Following the completion of his education at the Turkish Air War College and the Armed Forces Academy, Cömert graduated from the Air Command and Staff College and the Academic Instructor School at the Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, United States.

Luce Hall

The building was the main administrative building for the Naval War College from 1892, when Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan was President of the Naval War College for his second time, until 1974 during the presidency of Vice Admiral Stansfield Turner, when the president's office was moved to newly constructed Conolly Hall.

Mary Ann Peters

She served as associate director for international liaison in the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, then became dean of academics at that institution until being appointed to the Naval War College in 2008.

Michitarō Komatsubara

After spending 1926-1927 as an instructor at the War College, he returned to Moscow again as a military attache from 1927-1929.

Rimailho Model 1904TR

A firing demonstration was held at the French War College at Langres on September 4, 1906 with the French Minister of War, Eugene Etienne in attendance.

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.

Walter Carter

Walter E. Carter Jr., naval flight officer and president of the U.S. Naval War College

William Banks Caperton

On February 21, 1895, he reported to the Office of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department, Washington, DC, and following three months' duty in that office, he had instruction at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, completing the course there on October 15, 1896.