 Kenney reached the pinnacle of his professional education in September 1932, when he entered the Army War College in Washington, D.C.. At the war college, committees of students studied a number of World War I battles; Kenney's committee examined the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes.They updated actual war plans, Kenney's study group working on War Plan Orange.They also had to write an individual paper; Kenney wrote his on "The Proper Composition of the Air Force".