Adams Center Essay Contest Winners, 2004-2005

Essay Contest Papers Top Level 

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

First prize:$2000

“Decentralization and Democracy in the U.S. Zone of Occupied Germany after World War II”. LT COL Walter M. Hudson, U.S. Army, Leavenworth, KS . (LTCOL Hudson is a PhD candidate at Kansas State University)

Second prize:$1000

“The SAC Mentality: The Development of Organizational Culture within Strategic Air Command, 1948-51”. LTCOL Melvin G. Deaile, III, U.S. Air Force, Hillsborough, NC. (LTCOL Deaile is a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill)

Third prize:$500

“A Comparative Study of Military Spending in the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev and in the United States under Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1961”. Mr. Joshua Andy, Washington, PA. (Mr. Andy is a MA/PhD student at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, UK)

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)

• “Past Experience Merges with Current Circumstances during Two Cold War Interwar Periods”. MAJ Neil Allen, USAF, HQ USFK CJ35 Plans. (When submitting his paper, Major Allen was a student at the School for Advanced Air and Space Studies, Maxwell AFB)
• “Promise and Reality: Beyond Visual Range (BVR) Air-To-Air Combat”. LTCOL Patrick Higby, Langley AFB, (At the time of his paper submission, LTCOL Higby was a student at the Air War College, Maxwell AFB)
• “Pitfalls in Knowing Your Enemy”. Dr. John Prados, National Security Archive, The George Washington University