Mr. Peters is correct when he says that many nations send their officers (each nation sends one of their top majors per year) to Ft. Leavenworth to attend the Intermediate Level Education (ILE) course at the Command and General Staff College. What he does not cover in his article is that the Air Force and Navy also offer this instruction at their own installations.

Although Ft. Leavenworth is the Army’s CGSC home, it also offers an abbreviated ILE course at satellite campuses Ft. Belvoir, Ft. Gordon, and Ft. Lee. For anyone looking for reasons to prevent the closure of Gitmo or the re-location of terrorists to Ft. Leavenworth, this concern may not be all that difficult to address. A solution for future classes, once logistical and adminstrative hurdles are cleared, may just be to send the foreign students to one of the other locations.

For further information, please click one of these:

http://www.almc.army.mil/ALOG/issues/JanFeb06/ile_cgsc.html

http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/cgsc/

V/r,

James Rae