Before the First Gulf War, the Army established a year-long course, the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, where a select group of Command and Staff College graduates study ways to apply warfare based on rapid decision cycles—“maneuver warfare.” Boyd worked with SAMS’s founder, then-Colonel Huba Wass de Czege, and lectured there on several occasions. SAMS alumni call themselves “Jedi Knights,” and Gen Schwarzkopf’s staff in Riyadh contained upwards of 60 of them.82
