Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Army War College

ARMY WAR COLLEGE, a department of the United States military educational establishment authorized by Congress in 1900. Brig.-Gen. William Ludlow was made chief of the board which drafted the regulations. The faculty of the college study the military organization of the United States with an eye to a complete understanding of its practical efficiency of operations, and constitute an advisory board to which the Secretary of War can turn at any time for details and recommendations as to any point in the mechanism of the whole military service. The study of plans of campaign by the college and the accumulation of military information make the inauguration of a campaign, in case of war, only a matter of the issuing of the necessary orders by the Secretary.

Source: Collier's New Encyclopedia 1. (1921) New York: P.F. Collier & Son Company. 267.