On the bluffs of the Missouri River in Kansas, Colonel Leavenworth established a post in 1927 that helped keep peace among warring Native American tribes. Over time, it became the second-oldest US army post west of Washington DC. However, it turned out to be better known as the intellectual nerve centre of the US Army.
The United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is a graduate school for the US Army, which selects military officers from around the world for its course. In 1967–68, Sundarji attended the prestigious Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in the US in 1967–68, as a part of the Senior Officers Preventive Maintenance Course at Fort Knox, Kentucky. In his report at the CGSC course in the US, Sundarji was rated highly and recommended fit to command a NATO army, the only Indian ever to have been rated this highly.
At Fort Leavenworth, he learnt how technology, mobility and speed in warfare needed to be studied in one spectrum. For an Indian officer attending a prestigious course in the US, it was both a discovery of new practices and a validation of his approach. The exposure to global ideas...
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