American Military University's "Footprint"

With all the heated talk about DETC, I decided to measure the footprint of one of the stronger DETC schools. I chose American Military University, which I have long been fond of.

The results were truly impressive.

Not only did AMU make a good showing, not only did it surpass a number of RA schools that I've looked at, but AMU actually seems to be one of the more interesting and productive DL-only schools out there, whatever the accreditation.

Here's a sampling that doesn't begin to exhaust what's available:

1. AMU and the US Department of Justice's Center for Domestic Preparedness team up to create a new Weapons of Mass Destruction certificate program

http://www.apus.edu/amu/cdp/

2. FEMA recommends the AMU/DoJ WMD certificate program

http://www.fema.gov/doc/reg-x/hazmat4_12.doc

3. Article by AMU professor in 'Parameters: US Army War College Quarterly'

http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/97summer/bunker.htm

4. Article on 'Failed-State Operational Environments' in 'Military Review'

http://www-cgsc.army.mil/milrev/english/SepOct97/Bunker.htm

5. 'Military Review' article on 'Information Operations in the Conduct of Land Warfare'

http://cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil/MILREV/download/english/SepNov98/bunker.pdf

6. Cooperation agreement with US Merchant Marine Academy, in which the USMMA actually offers a DL masters program through AMU

http://www.usmma.edu/gmats/april2001news.htm

7. AMU professor presents banquet presentation at 2002 IEEE Radar Conference

http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/lac/radar02/program/events.html

8. Navy Lt-Cdr./AMU professor speaks at Informations Operations Europe Conference

http://www.iwar.org.uk/news-archive/conference/io-2003.htm

9. 2002 Global Security Summit for Transporation Systems and Critical Transportation Infrastructure

http://www.wcbf.com/security/6000/6000.pdf

10. MA student publishes paper 'Why the German People Went Willingly to Ruin' in Command and General Staff College's Military Review

http://cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil/MILREV/english/SepOct02/pellas.asp

11. Paper on the Military Sea Transportation Service by an AMU professor

http://www.usmm.org/msts/ootw.html

12 . Review of 'Collis' Zouaves: The 114th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War' by AMU professor Edward J. Hagerty

http://www.skalman.nu/uscivilwar/books-review-collis.htm

13.. AMU professor edits 'Dear Catharine, Dear Taylor: The Civil War Letters of a Union Soldier and His Wife', U. Kansas Press

http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/kipdea.html

14. AMU civil war history MA student has paper published in the Journal of Military History

http://www.smh-hq.org/jmh/volumes/jmh632/aut632.html

15. AMU coauthor on a paper on civil-military relationships in Canada. Research was partly funded by the DND.

http://www.ccs21.org/articles/articles.htm

16. Listing on Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences chemical and biological terrorism links page

http://www.usuhs.mil/cbw/academic_chemical_and_biologic_terrorism.htm

17. Listing on CBIAC links page. (Chemical and Biological Information and Analysis Center, operated by Batelle Memorial Institute for the US DoD)

http://www.cbiac.apgea.army.mil/resources/directory/dom_prepar.html

18. Former AMU prof at 2002 Infrastructure Security Conference

http://www.janes.com/security/conference/infra_security2002/speaker_info.shtml

19. RIT graduate ends up a USAF intelligence major in Kyrgystan, studying for an AMU MA in Unconventional Warfare when not hunting Al Qaeda.

http://www.rit.edu/~umagwww/spring2003/militarylife.html

20. Air War College link

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-hmld.htm

21. Nepal news website interviews an AMU unconventional warfare professor on the insurgency in that country

http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/englishweekly/spotlight/2002/nov/nov29/national4.htm

22. AMU hires a former Afghan mujahadeen to teach

http://www.vanewswire.com/issues/issue50.htm

23. Conference presentation on the possible use of private military forces (mercenaries) in peacekeeping operations

http://members.shaw.ca/keepinga/smss/smssconf2002abstracts.html

24. Articulation agreement with the US Army Signals Center

http://www.gordon.army.mil/dhr/Tng/SBLMSyn.htm

25. Articulation agreement with Army Management Staff College

http://www.amsc.belvoir.army.mil/ecampus/sblmp/prework/documents/ag08.pdf

26. Article in 'Airpower Journal' on rate of change in air combat technology

http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/bunker.pdf

27. Announcement of an AMU class for students selected for the Army Sargeant Major's Academy

http://www.goordnance.apg.army.mil/Opp/rcsm.htm

28. Presentation at 4'th Triennial Vietnam Symposium at Texas Tech

http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/vietnamcenter/events/2002_Symposium/2002Presentations.htm

29. Michigan State U. adjunct in MS in Food Safety program is an Unconventional Warfare professor at AMU

http://www.vu.msu.edu/preview/nfstc-ed/faculty.html

30. Vermont in the Civil War web project created by an AMU MA graduate in civil war history

http://www.vermontcivilwar.org/index.shtml

31. Two ehistory.com contributors are current AMU MA students in civil war history

http://www.ehistory.com/contributors.cfm

32. Listing by International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts

http://www.ialeia.org/articles.html

33. Listing on a webpage belonging to something called the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals

http://www.scip.org/education/ciuniversity.asp

34. AMU professor discusses his book 'Hitler's Jewish Soldiers' on Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2002/05/rigg/

35. Future war notes

http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/pdf/walters_future_warfare_with%20notes.pdf

36. Marines publicize new AMU WMD certificate

http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/0/E9D0679085A9357B85256C5300429CAA?opendocument

37. Reference to AMU in a story about recent resurgence in military science

http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/sncoa/Lejeune/ACRS-6_02SMMC.cfm

38. PA national guard newsletter announces new AMU programs

http://sites.state.pa.us/PA_Exec/Military_Affairs/air_national/lightningforce/publish2/nltr4qtr.html

39. Central Eurasian Studies Society Fourth Annual Conference

http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESSpg_conf_prog.html

40. Syllabus for AMU course on civil war economics

http://members.aol.com/rbshollen/Bibliogr.htm

41. Syllabus for AMU course on civil war medicine

http://bama.ua.edu/~sholl001/cw/cw_medicine.htm

42. Syllabus for AMU course on intelligence operations in the Civil War

http://bama.ua.edu/~sholl001/cw/outline.htm

43. Syllabus for AMU course on political stewardship: Lincoln and Davis

http://members.aol.com/rbshollen/S-SHIP2.htm

44. Editorial written by an AMU civil war history graduate who is now working on a Ph.D. at the U. of Florida.

http://interracialvoice.com/sweet11.html

 

Bill:

Fine piece of research on your part. I truly enjoyed checking out some of the articles cited. AMU appears to be enjoying overwhelming success in their DL studies.

Bruce Pawlak

 

Nice work Bill. Thanks for the research.

 

AMU has obviously specialized and carved out a very strong niche for themselves. I have little doubt that they have an excellent reputation in military circles.

 

Bill, thanks for the research. As I said earlier in the week, this school is innovative and very contributory. Attendance appears to be around 10,000 with a very strong faculty. Student body is made up of not only miliary but those with military interests.

 

We would be remiss if we failed to mention Criminal Justice and Homeland Security folks! They have opened several programs within these fields as well!

Bruce Pawlak

 

You bet... and a Business/Management component as well.