Adams Center Essay Contest Winners, 2010-2011

Essay Contest Papers Top Level 

Sponsored by the John A. Adams ’71 Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis 

First prize:  $2000  

“Virtually Useless: The Rise and Fall of the Safeguard Ballistic Missile Defense System” by Joseph C. Scott, United States Military Academy

 Second prize:  $1000  

“New Look Over Taiwan: The Eisenhower Administration and the Formosa Straits Crisis, August-October 1958” by James Young, Kansas State University

 Third prize:  $500  

“Without Mercy: US Strategic Intelligence and Finland in the Cold War” by Jukka Rislakki, Jarmala, Latvia

 Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)  

“History of the Special Forces Medic and the Role of Medicine in Counterinsurgency, 1952-1975” by Justin Barr, Yale University 

“Blue versus Orange: The United States Naval War College, Japan, and the Old Enemy in the Pacific, 1945-1946” by Hal M. Friedman, Henry Ford Community College 

“Failure to Plant the SEAD: USAF Suppression of  Enemy Air Defense Doctrine and Linebacker Offensives by James Young, Kansas State University