Majors MacLean, Mark Kimmitt and Clint Anderson on SAMS Map Exercise

Majors MacLean, Mark Kimmitt and Clint Anderson on SAMS Map Exercise

The School for Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) was the most difficult academic school that I ever attended.  Class ran from 7:30 a.m. to noon.  The rest of the day and night was a reading assignment of 400-500 pages, often an entire book.  The following morning, the seminar would discuss what they had read.  SAMS began in the early-1980s; it was based on the demanding training that the Prussian and German General Staff officers received long ago.