EDUCATION AND TRAINING

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• Publication Date: June 23, 1987
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Education and Training
State All-Stars' are on the roster at National Defense University
Fort McNair as an outpost of Foggy Bottom
BY ROBERT H. MILLER
The author, currently the vice pres-
ident of National Defense University, is
a former ambassador and a former di-
rector of management operations in the
Department.
6 PT HE LARGEST contingent of
1 Foreign Service officers in the
United States?outside the State Depart-
ment?is assigned to National Defense
University." In
these words my
predecessor, Am-
bassador Bruce
Laingen, under-
scored to me our
stake in the. Pen-
tagon's educational
institution at Fort
McNair, Wash-
ington. State main-
Mr. Miller tains a presence
there. Fourteen Foreign Service officers
at the FS-I level currently are students
at the National War College, and four at
the Industrial College of the Armed
Forces. (These are the two principal
senior training institutions at the univer-
sity.) In addition, 11 senior Foreign
Service officers are assigned to various
elements of the university as faculty ad-
visers, instructors or research fellows.
Also. five students in the class of '87
have been promoted across the threshold
into the Senior Foreign Service during
their senior training assignment (John E.
Bennett, Larry Colbert and Dorothy
Sampas at the War College; Gregorie
W. Bujac at the Industrial College; and
Patrick N. Theros, at the Institute for
National Strategic Studies, which is at-
tached to the university). And a number
of Foreign Service officers who are at
the university have received ongoing as-
signments as deputy chiefs of mission,
consuls general and office directors in
the Department.
In the past, too, many Foreign
Service graduates of these institutions
have risen to senior positions in the De-
partment and the Service. Ambassador
The National War College. (Photo by Garrett E. Rawlings)
(ret.) David D. Newsom, class of '60 at
the War College, became ambassador to
Libya. Indonesia and the Philippines;
assistant secretary for African affairs;
and, finally, under secretary for political
affairs, the highest office in the Depart-
ment normally reserved for career of-
ficers. Other graduates who have risen
to top ranks in the Department and
abroad include Ambassadors Deane
Hinton, George Vest, Harry Barnes and
Stephen Low. Earlier, there were Am-
bassadors Marshall Green, Tapley Ben-
nett, Parker Hart, Edmund Gullion,
Burke Elbrick, Clare Timberlake,
W. Walter McConaughy, Foy Kohler
and Ray Hare.
New law
Now, under recent legislaton, the
importance of the university to the State
Department looms even larger. The De-
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fense Reorganization Act, signed by
President Reagan last October I, is in-
tended to promote "jointness"?the
Defense Department's term of interser-
vice and interallied cooperation. What
does this mean for the university's role
as a senior educational institution for the
State Department? In the first place, it
means that the pressure for quality
education at the university, already high
in my observation, will get higher. Sec-
ondly, it means that the Foreign Service
officers assigned to the university both
as faculty and students will participate
in the upgrading of emphasis now being
placed on "jointness." Thirdly, al-
though this new emphasis may re-focus
the curriculum of the War College, in
For example, at The university's in-
State has been sending at least,
one Seritor'fOreliti"Sigice 'cifriter to
each six-week*Taptforie""c-OUrie, at
Which general and flag-rank officers
learn how to operate in a joint environ-
ment; ",Capstone" is now being stepped
upArorn?twa-trcilthir'Cla.sses per year.
Thrprieans-that from now on at least
foitfieniot Foreign Service officers will
benefit from this high-quality, intensive
senibi, course each year.
,:,4,7,,Ariother indication of the increas-
ing'priority, that Defense is placing on
thiscoursels-theintiVersitY's decision to
include a retired senior ambassador in
the group of senior "Capstone" fel-
lows-retired four-star generals and ad-
Home of the vice president of National Defense University. (Photo by Garrett E. Rawlings)
particular, more on military strategy and
operations, the national security context
of these operations will remain. In my
view, this presents State with the oppor-
tunity to focus attention on an even
broader definition of jointness: the in-
separability of political, economic and
military factors and the ever-growing
need for military-civilian jointness in
support of national security. policy and
strategy.
mirals--7who serve as senior mentors,
advisers And resource persons to the
"Capstoneattendees;.;-The first retired
ambassador lb-biChosen for this key
role is W. Tapley Bennett, former am-
bassadorlto4slAPortirgal and the
Dominican Republic and assistant secre-
tary for, congressionaJ.rrelations. State
ernp1ti9ele4fio have attended the
''CApstone? course to date are Roy
Haverkamp, Ambassadors Lannon
May 1987
Walker and Brandon Grove, John
Leary, Edward Hurwitz, Robert A.
Martin and W. Dean Howells.
Where the rivers meet
The university is in Southwest
Washington, at the confluence of the
Potomac and Anacostia Rivers and the
Washington Channel. Fort McNair is
one of the oldest active military installa-
tions in the United States and, with its
historic buildings, one of the most beau-
tiful sites in Washington. The univer-
sity, established in 1976, consists of
three colleges--the War and Industrial
Colleges at McNair (both well-known
and much older than the university) and
the Armed Forces Staff College at Nor-
folk. In addition, there are three in-
stitutes: Higher Defense Studies, Na-
tional Strategic Studies and the Defense
Department Computer Institute. The
university also has a library of well over
200,000 bound volumes, and a press
which publishes books, research papers
and conference proceedings. In addition
to its resident college courses, the uni-
versity conducts correspondence
courses in national security management
for some 3,000 military officers around
the world, as well as a thrice-yearly
two-week intensive course in national
security issues for Reserve officers, at
different locations around the country.
The university organizes three symposia
a year?one on NATO, one on the Pa-
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cific and one on a topical subject se-
lected each year (this year inter-Ameri-
can security was the subject). Each
symposium attracts over 200 experts
and interested observers, and the pro-
ceedings are published by the National
Defense University Press.
Each year the university invites 12
foreign military officers from allied and
other friendly countries to be interna-
tional fellows for the academic year. It
carries on an active program of ex-
changes in various forms (student field-
study visits, researchers, lectures, etc.)
with a number of foreign countries, in-
cluding China.
The president of the university is of
three-star rank. Air Force Lieutenant
General Bradley Hosmer, a graduate of
the U.S. Air Force Academy and a for-
mer Rhodes scholar, is the current presi-
dent. The vice president traditionally is
a senior Foreign Service officer who has
served as an ambassador. Previous vice
presidents have been Bruce Laingen,
Monteagle Stearns, Jack Kubisch and
William Leonhart. The vice president
lives in a gracious old Georgian-style
house on "Generals' Row," along the
Washington Channel at Fort McNair.
The three colleges are headed by
two-star generals or admirals. At each
there are senior Foreign Service officers
assigned as international affairs advisers
to the commandants. The advisers are
accorded major faculty supervisory and
Dwight D. Eisenhower Hall, home of the In-
dustrial College of the Armed Forces, dedi-
cated by President Eisenhower in 1960. (Photo
by Garrett E. Rawlings)
National War College students spend about
30% of their academic year in seminars like
this one on terrorism. (Photo by Garrett E.
Rawlings)
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federal civilian colleagues for positions
of senior responsibility in the U.S. Gov-
ernment. The War College's curriculum
focuses on military strategy, warfight-
ing, joint and combined operations, in-
ternational relations and national se-
curity policy formation. The Industrial
College concentrates on joint mobiliza-
tion of manpower and industrial re-
sources, and the management of those
resources.
Both courses utilize lectures, semi-
nars and independent study and re-
search. A former research fellow, now
retired Foreign Service officer Bruce
Amstutz, has just had published by the
University Press a major work, "Af-
ghanistan: The First Five Years of Oc-
cupation." Current research fellows in-
clude Ambassador Paul Gardner and
Foreign Service officers W. Brooks
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Schedule of courses at the Foreign Service Institute
Program
June
July
Aug.
Length
Area studies
Africa, sub-Sahara
15
10
2 weeks
East Asia
15
10
2 weeks
Latin America
15
?
10
2 weeks
Near East and North Africa
15
..._
10
2 weeks
South Asia
15
_
10
2 weeks
Southeast Asia
15
?
10
2 weeks
USSR/eastern Europe
15
10
2 weeks
Western Europe
15
?
10
2 weeks
Canada
1
?
1 week
Language and advanced area courses
Afrikaans
24
24 weeks
Amharic
24
24/44 weeks
Arabic (Egyptian and modern standard)
24
24/44 weeks
Arabic (formal spoken and modern standard)
24
24/44 weeks
Arabic (western and modern standard)
24
24/44 weeks
Arabic (formal spoken and modern standard)
(advanced in Tunis)
3
47 weeks
Bengali
24
24/44 weeks
Bulgarian
24
24/44 weeks
Burmese
24
24/44 weeks
Chinese (Cantonese)
24
24/44 weeks
Chinese (standard)
24
24/44 weeks
Czech
24
24/44 weeks
Danish
24
24 weeks
Dari (Afghan Persian)
24
24/44 weeks
Dutch
24
24 weeks
Farsi (Iranian Persian)
24
24/44 weeks
Finnish
24
24/44 weeks
French
1,29
24
20 weeks
German
29
24
24 weeks
Greek
24
24/44 weeks
Hebrew
24
24/44 weeks
Hindi
24
24/44 weeks
Hungarian
24
24/44 weeks
Icelandic
24
24/44 weeks
Indonesian
24
24/32 weeks
Italian
29
24
24 weeks
Japanese
24
24/44 weeks
Japanese (advanced in Yokohama)
3
12/15 months
Korean.
24
24/44 weeks
Korean (advanced in Seoul)
24
44 weeks
Lao
24
24/44 weeks
Malay
24
24/32 weeks
Nepali
24
24/44 weeks
Norwegian
24
24 weeks
Pilipino (Tagalog)
24
24/44 weeks
Polish
24
24/44 weeks
Portuguese
29
24
24 weeks
Romanian
24
24 weeks
Russian
24
24/44 weeks
Serbo-Croatian
24
24/44 weeks
Sinhala
24
24/44 weeks
Spanish
1,29
24
20 weeks
Swahili
24
24 weeks
Swedish
24
24 weeks
Thai
24
24/44 weeks
Turkish
24
24/44 weeks
Ukrainian
24
24/44 weeks
Urdu
24
24/44 weeks
Vietnamese
24
24/44 weeks
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Wrampelmeier and Patrick Theros.
Both courses include trips abroad to get
firsthand briefings from U.S. em-
bassies, U.S. field commands and for-
eign officials. Both courses, too, com-
bine a required core curriculum with
selected elective subjects and voluntary
field trips in the continental United
States, Canada, Mexico and Panama.
The university is also proud of its
emphasis on physical fitness and execu-
tive skills development, including
various testing techniques designed to
enhance the student's own understand-
ing of his leadership strengths and
weaknesses.
New construction
Plans have existed for some time to
expand the university's facilities to meet
its growing responsibilities, especially
those mandated under the new Defense
Reorganization Act. Thirty-three mil-
lion dollars have been included in the
Defense fiscal year 1988 budget for the
construction of a new academic opera-
tions building on a site immediately ad-
jacent to, and now incorporated into
Fort McNair. When completed, the new
building will house university offices,
the library (with room for its expan-
sion), the computer institute (currently
located at the Washington Navy Yard),
the Institutes for National Strategic
Studies and for Higher Defense Studies,
and numerous administrative support
elements. This will alleviate over-
crowded teaching and student facilities
in the two current War and Industrial
College buildings, and enhance the
quality of education of these two institu-
tion. It will also enable the university to
fulfill its added responsibilities under
the Defense Reorganization Act.
The university's facilities represent
a major senior training opportunity for
qualified Foreign Service officers and
Departmental employees. It provides for
a challenging and stimulating year of
study, research and travel for its stu-
dents, as well as opportunities for re-
search and teaching for its faculty mem-
bers and research fellows. It affords an
opportunity not to be missed!
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