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Foreign Military Studies Office
101 Meade Ave
Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027-1351
The Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) researches, writes and publishes from unclassified sources about the military establishments, doctrines and strategic, operational and tactical practices of selected foreign armed forces. It also studies a variety of civil-military and transnational security issues affecting the U.S. military, such as peacekeeping and peace enforcement, counter-drug support, terrorism, insurgency and peacetime contingency operations.
FMSO's studies, articles, briefings and lectures broaden understanding of foreign
military developments and support policy formulation, decision-making and military education. FMSO actively participates in military-to-military and academic outreach programs with the Commonwealth of Independent States and other countries around the world.
HERITAGE OF SERVICE
The Foreign Military Studies Office was formed in 1986 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as the Soviet Army Studies Office (SASO). Its original mission was to provide necessary content for those studying the Soviet Army. By exploiting open-source Slavic language materials, SASO provided soldiers and their leaders in-depth information about Soviet and Warsaw Pact military capabilities. The subsequent collapse of the Warsaw Pact in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 prompted reorganization of SASO into FMSO. As fundamental political-military changes took place in the world, FMSO expanded its research mission to encompass a broad range of transnational issues affecting U.S. military policy, strategy and doctrine. Today, FMSO works to anticipate security challenges and threats which may evolve in our rapidly changing global environment.
ORGANIZATION
FMSO provides direct support to the senior U.S. Army and Department of Defense leadership and general support to the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center. FMSO's three major areas of concentration are geo-strategy, operational art and tactics, and operations other than war, including "grey-area" phenomena. A support section provides translation, research database, library, automation and administrative support.
MISSION AND GOALS
FMSO's mission is to research, write, lecture and publish from unclassified sources, in both English and original languages, about the military establishments, doctrine and operational and tactical practices of selected foreign armed forces and about a variety of transnational security issues affecting the U.S. military.
FMSO goals, which are achieved through the development and implementation of the annual FMSO research plan, include:
- thorough, quality research
- timely products, responsive to Army needs
- accessibility to soldiers
- outreach to academe
- and extensive networking with domestic and foreign military researchers
and research organizations.
PRODUCTS
FMSO produces a wide variety of products on military security matters. FMSO Blue Cover Studies are available on request and associated commercially published journals (The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, European Security, and Low Intensity Conflict and Law Enforcement) are available by subscription. All FMSO publications are listed in the annual FMSO Publication Program, which is available on request. Available lectures and briefings are similarly contained in the annual FMSO Lecture Program.
FOR INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE CONTACT:
Director
ATTN: ATIN-F
Foreign Military Studies Office
101 Meade Ave
Ft. Leavenworth, KS 66027-1351
Telephone:
(913) 684-5946/5940
FAX: (913) 684-4701
DSN Prefix: 552
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