AMSP Deck Flashcards
When was SAMS Founded?
June 1983
Why was it made?
To create a second year of study at Fort Leavenworth for select CGSOC graduates to increase their competence and then leaven that competence across the force.
What three programs make up SAMS?
1) Advanced Military Studies Program
2) Advanced Strategic Leadership Studies Program
3) Advanced Strategic Planning and Policy (ASP3)
What are the four expectations of AMSP Graduates?
1) ENGAGE AND ENABLE SENIOR LEADERS
2) UNDERSTAND AND ANTICIPATE MISSION SETS
3) ANALYZE AND ASSESS
THE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT
4) TEACH, COACH, AND MENTOR
What are the characteristics expected of a AMSP Graduate?
Stamina/Resolve
Physical Fitness
Balance
Moral Courage
Humility
Intellectual Curiosity
Integrity
Interpersonal Skills
What is the SAMS Mission?
The School of Advanced Military Studies educates select Armed Forces, Interagency and Allied members to become critical and creative thinkers, agile and adaptive leaders and skilled practitioners of doctrine and operational art, and in order to enable senior leaders to drive the operations process to achieve favorable strategic, operational and tactical outcomes.
What are the AMSP Outcomes?
1) Analyze and assess complex ambiguous operational environments
2) Teach, Coach, and Mentor
3) Understand, anticipate and adapt to emerging missions
4) Engage senior leaders to enable decision making and their ability to visualize, describe and direct
5)Skilled practitioner in doctrine and operational art
What was the SAMS course designed to do?
To address a gap in US Military education between the CGSC’s focus on tactics and the War College’s focus on grand strategy and National Security Policy.
Who was the first director of SAMS?
Colonel Huba Wass de Czege
Where did they hold class initially?
The basement of Bell Hall
Where did SAMS graduates first see active service?
December 1989, Operation Just Cause
