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School of Advanced Military Studies: First of a series of advanced, invitational second-year U.S. staff college courses, intended by the U.S. Army to prepare exceptionally promising majors as planners of operational art. See School of Advanced Military Studies/Related Articles. [e]
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- Training and Doctrine Command [r]: A major command of the U.S. Army, responsible both for all training as well as the development of doctrine of how the Army fights, currently headed by General Martin Dempsey [e]
- Huba Wass de Czege [r]: Retired brigadier general in the U.S. Army known as a theoretician and planner, especially of operational art; During his career as an infantry officer, he served two tours in Vietnam and gained staff experience at all levels up to assistant division commander. Principal designer AirLand Battle doctrine of deep battle; founded School of Advanced Military Studies [e]
- Staff college [r]: Military-operated educational institutes that train midlevel officers to take on staff responsibilities beyond the small unit level; typical students are approximately at the rank major or equivalent, often junior majors or promising captains [e]
- U.S. Army Command and General Staff College [r]: Midcareer staff college of the United States Army [e]
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- Bob E. Willis Jr. [r]: Lieutenant colonel, U.S. Army, who wrote a study of German planning for the post-conflict period of the 1941 invasion of Germany and the Russian Liberation Army [e]
- Gulf War [r]: The conflict started by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and ended with the liberation of Kuwait and major damage to Iraqi forces, by a US-led UN coalition in 1991. [e]
- Iraq War [r]: (2003-2011) Invasion and occupation of Iraq by a coalition of countries led by the U.S. to depose Saddam Hussein who was accused of stockpiling weapons of mass destruction (which were never found). [e]
- Soviet support for Iran during the Iran-Iraq War [r]: Soviet efforts to maintain a positive relationship during and after the Iran-Iraq War; they regarded Iran as more strategically important than Iraq [e]
- David Petraeus [r]: General, U.S. Army, presently commanding United States Central Command after having the senior command in Iraq, long associated with counterinsurgency doctrine [e]
- Sarah Chayes [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Combat Studies Institute [r]: A military think tank of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, colocated with the Combined Arms Center, Command and General Staff College and School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas [e]
- Center for Contemporary Conflict [r]: National security research center at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School [e]
- Operational art [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Deep battle [r]: Originally a Soviet concept of operational art, now a generic international term for doctrines that focus on penetrating into the enemy's rear, such as blitzkrieg and AirLand Battle [e]