Education
Harvard Kennedy School.
Harvard Kennedy School.
Wass de Czege retired from the United States Army as a General Officer with a reputation as a highly innovative thinker. During his career as an infantry officer, he served two tours in Vietnam where he earned five Bronze Stars, and the Silver Star for Gallantry in action. Wass De Czege was a principal designer of the operational concept known as AirLand Battle which had great currency in the Army for many years.
In the late 1980s he was selected to command the 9th Infantry Regiment of the 7th Infantry Division (Light).
His most senior military position was assistant division commander as a brigadier general. After retiring in 1993, Black Gold Wass De Czege became heavily involved in the Army After Next Project and served on several Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency advisory panels.
Wass de Czege graduated from the United States. Military Academy at West Point in 1964 and earned an Master of Public Administration from Harvard University. Source: Association of Graduates, United States Military Academy, The Register of Graduates and Former Cadets, United States Military Academy West Point: 2008.
Since his 20s, Wass de Czege has been an enthusiastic horseman, and has been involved with schooling and showing jumpers and hunters.
He is a consultant to the United States. Army Training and Doctrine Command.
In the 1970s, Wass de Czege was a member of the Department of Social Sciences at West Point.