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The Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) is the U.S. Army's institute for strategic and national security research and analysis.It is part of the U.S. Army War College.SSI conducts strategic research and analysis to support the U.S. Army War College curricula, provides direct analysis for Army and Department of Defense leadership, and serves as a bridge to the wider strategic community.
VUCA – Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity characterize the strategic environment – U.S. Army War College; Weinberger-Powell Doctrine – A list of questions have to be answered affirmatively before military action is taken by the United States: Is a vital national security interest threatened? Do we have a clear attainable ...
The first president of the Army War College was Major General Samuel B. M. Young [7] 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 ...
According to the U.S. Army War College's Department of Military Strategy, Planning, and Operations, BSAP provides officers newly designated into Functional Area (FA) 59 (Strategist) an introduction to strategy and to the unique skills, knowledge, and behaviors that provide the foundation for their progressive development as Army strategists.
Before war's end senior Army officers, including General Eisenhower (who was then the Allied Supreme Commander of the European Theatre), supported the concept of a joint war college to study mobilization planning and military logistics. From 1944 to 1946, Donald Armstrong was commandant of the Army Industrial College. [6]
Leonard Wong (born 30 December 1958) [1] is a Research Professor of Military Strategy (Human and Organizational Dimensions) in the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College, who focuses on the human and organizational dimensions of the military, [2] and is a published author on leadership strategy.
While teaching at West Point, he was affiliated with the Strategic Studies Institute at the United States Army War College [6] for which he co-authored a book on military professionalism in 1999. [7] He later received the George C. Marshall Award for being the top graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College in 2001.
Steven Kent Metz (born June 30, 1956 in Charleston, West Virginia) is an American author and former professor of national security and strategy at the U.S. Army War College specializing in insurgency and counterinsurgency, American defense policy, strategic theory, the African security environment, and future warfare.