European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Sherman Hall above is perhaps Leavenworth most famous built beside with americans during a session on divisional tactical instructors in its clock Tower can be seen for turkish officers left inset study Side of the command and general staff College inset right Brush up on map of f ices learn to think like generals at Leavenworth dated came from Gen William Tecumseh then the army chief of to read the school for infantry and cavalry is opened with the Mission of teaching Geog algebra and trigonometry such history As every Young gentle Man should be presumed to know and the science and practice of War so far As they can be acquired from a year and a half Sherman had strikingly declared War is All yet he and other leaders in the civil War desired to apply the military knowledge they had gained to prepare officers Lor any future Sherman Calm order was to have International meaning in both world and in the cold for at the same time that the top Mili tary strategists of the Western world meet in Europe to Chart their course in Case of another Here in Kansas officers from these Atlantic nations Are learning the command and staff work necessary for an integrated the school began with 42 lieutenants using foreign textbooks like seats and saddles and bits and an aus Trian cavalry from this be Leavenworth gradually developed into the main military doctrinal denier of the its school for infantry and cavalry became today command and general staff Here hand picked and Allied officers now earn what is called the army pm but the College no longer teaches Horsey Manship As it did in sherman3 or even yanks allies take Tough 10month course at comma and and general staff College by Herbert new York times writer Eisenhower convertible horseless carriages surround the overgrown Polo and a course is Given in principles of nuclear physics and effects of atomic before world War ii Many military scholars studied Germany Kriegs Academie and Frances Ecol super Eure de but the changed world Power order and new Mas destruction weapons have shifted the centers of military Gravity and this College and its counterpart in the soviet army Frunze Are considered Light of world two busiest in the world the colleges International meaning is visible in the where 45 out standing Allied officers from 26 care full chosen countries study at adjacent desks with 446 air Navy and Marine corps Allied students rep resent All of americas defense arrange there Are officers Here from the near and far East colonels and majors from Central and South America Rio majors and captains from Turkey Truman an officer from Sweden officers from Canada and nor Italy and other european countries danish and French offi cers Atlantic pact and military assist Ance but More than half the College work to devoted to Plain and fancy and it is to such a class that one goes to see what generals supposed to know about the last War and the a Pesky Cannon it is to an untamed sleepy civilian booms Over the fort at 6 by 8 am class is sitting in a course called organization and characteristics of the infantry though nuclear physics is studied at the the Rifle and Rifleman Are not the class spreads out maps on work and the classroom resembles a kind of dignified briefing room before a mis the instructor Points to a Wall today he is based on a modification of a world War ii Battle in the Bres Cherbourg there Are three men in each to gain the the instructor Calls upon an american should All three attack at once should two attack and one be held in Reserve should the attacking two do so together or converge you will take into says the the conceal River tank a air nothing else i would take the first regiment the student lieutenant colonel but he is gently interrupted says the instructor lieu tenant you take the first a Gen Start that is one of the big Stu dents who in world War ii commanded Only companies or battalions suddenly have to think in terms of not less than a for the col lege teaches leadership Only from division up to army size of Gen Omar Bradley command in Europe during last one of Allied a French Waves Iii hand Colo he your solution May be Cor rect in but i happen to live on that terrain the instructor had in that very yet the wartime Solu Tion might be incorrect the French officer is invited to the head of the class to Trade the other Type of Classwork involves nonmilitary in the All sections of the class gather in a com Mon Assembly a colonel from tha colleges g2 paces the a port Able microphone is attached to his Chest and a wire curls after him like a Tail the microphone suddenly says something that sounds like the fall of capitalism 13 and one blinks in amazement such a dire prediction is not official department of defense policy at All but Only part of a lecture on As he the colonel makes fre quent references to communist continued on Page i this by Herbert wartime stars and stripes is reprinted from the new Yorac sunday Maya me by special permission of the author and the new York Tim Etc Fea Tufte Section
