Marshall Scholars at the US Army School of Advanced Military Studies

A big thank you to Enduralock for hosting the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) Advanced Strategic Leadership Program (ASLSP) this week. Our students greatly benefited from hearing a small buisness perspective on innovation and the DoD contracting and acquisition process! Interactions like this help give #ASLSP graduates the well rounded and broad education it takes to make them great strategic leaders!

Thank you to the KC Chiefs for a great discussion about Strategic Communications, Marketing, and Information Operations today! It was a truly memorable ASLSP day with lots of meaningful discussion. Thank you Robert Alberino for being such a great host, sharing your expertise, and your support for the military. A great day at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium!

Ideas on Strategic Leadership: Henry Kissinger from his recent book "Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy" p. xv "Leaders think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second, between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. Their first challenge is analysis, which begins with a realistic assessment of their society based on its history, mores, and capacities. Then they must balance what they know, which is necessarily drawn from the past, with what they intuit about the future, which is inherently conjectural and uncertain. It is this intuitive grasp of direction that enables (strategic) leaders to set objectives and lay down a strategy." General (ret.) David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts from their recent book "Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine" "In essence there are four tasks. The first is to get the big ideas right. The second is to communicate them effectively throughout the breadth and depth of the organization. The third is to oversee the implementation of the big ideas. And the fourth is to determine how the big ideas need to be refined, changed, augmented, and then repeating the process over again and again and again.” Strategic Leadership = Strategic Thinking + Strategic Planning + Implementation? What do you think?

Q. Why should I or someone I mentor consider attending the Advanced Strategic Leadership Studies Program for a Senior Service College Option? A. There are many benefits including: -ASLSP being a joint/combined JPME level II SSC option -having an incredible PhD faculty team -providing a significant number of engagements with senior leaders in our national security enterprise and Joint Force -the opportunity to spend a second year as a seminar leader for AMSP to develop a future generation of leaders But the one I would like to highlight today is the approximately nine weeks of field studies students have to connect academics to practice at the National Capitol Region and in numerous Combatant Command AORs. This year, our class has conducted two of our six planned field studies so far: National Capitol Region: Visits included: U.S. State Department, National Security Council, Joint Staff, Office of the Secretary of the Army, Army Staff, U.S. Institute for Peace, U.S. Congress, USAID Joint Staff Team, and others. Europe and Africa Command: US Missions to European Union and NATO, NATO Headquarters, Supreme Headquarters Allied Command Europe, US Mission to Finland, Finnish Defense Forces, the FDF Karelian Brigade, the Baltic Defense College, NATO Enhanced Forward Presence and NATO Forces Integration Unit (NFIU) in Estonia, EUCOM headquarters, and AFRICOM headquarters. Next up: USSTRATCOM Headquarters. We will have a day to spend with the USSTRATCOM team. What strategic level questions would you like to ask the USSTRATCOM team?

ASLSP Community, the SAMS September Newsletter "Operational Reach" is live at the following link. https://lnkd.in/gGPRfXVk