Applications are being accepted until Jan. 30 for the Advanced Strategic Planning and Policy Program, a five- to six-year regimen of tailored assignments and military and civilian education that prepares field-grade officers for service as strategic planners.
The program is offered by the School of Advanced Military Studies, a component of the Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Selections for ASP3's 2016 cohort will come from be made by a board that meets July 13-17 at the Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth.
Officers selected by the panel will apply to American university doctoral programs in such liberal arts fields as history, political science, international relations, public policy, security studies, strategic studies, economics, political economy, applied philosophy, anthropology, sociology, communications, political geography, information science, systems science, systems engineering, design, public health and international law.
Officers then will attend graduate school for two years and complete all requirements for a doctorate except the dissertation. During this period officers also will attend two 10-week sessions in history, strategic theory and the practice of strategic planning at the School of Advanced Military Studies.
Following graduate school, officers not selected for brigade or battalion command will serve a developmental assignment with a Department of Defense, joint or service headquarters.
Upon completing a completion of command or a headquarters assignment, officers will spend one year working full time on their dissertation before being slated for a utilization assignment as a strategic planner.
The ASP3 is available to all Regular Army officers, regardless of career branch, who are members of year groups 1995 to 2003.
Officers must meet these -Additional criteria follows:
- Majors must have successfully completed at least 12 months of service in a key developmental assignment before beginning their ASP3 studies.
- Officers must be MEL IV complete, including Joint Professional Military Education I, before the start of ASP3.
- Have an undergraduate grade point average of at least 2.5, and Graduate Record Examination scores of at least 153 in verbal reasoning, 144 in quantitative reasoning and 4.0 in analytical writing on tests administered since Aug. 1, 2011. Minimum scores for tests administered before that date, but within the past five years, are 500 verbal, 500 quantitative and 4.0 writing.
Applications packets consisting of official personnel documents, transcripts, test scores and letters of recommendation must be submitted to the School of Advanced Military Studies by Jan. 30.
Packets will include official personnel documents, transcripts, test scores and letters of recommendation.
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