Adams Center Essay Contest Winners, 2006-2007

Essay Contest Papers Top Level 

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

First prize: $2000

“A Quiver of Golden Arrows: The Evolution of American Mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles” by Steven A. Pomeroy, U.S. Air Force Academy

Second prize $1000:

“General William DePuy: His Relief of Subordinates in Combat” by Henry G. Gole, Col. U.S. Army (Ret.)

Third prize: $500

“U.S. Army Mechanized Reconnaissance during the Cold War, 1946-1990” by Alexander M. Bielakowski, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)

• “Targeting China: US Nuclear Planning and ‘Massive Retaliation’ in the Far East, 1953-1954” by Matthew Jones, University of Nottingham

• “A Policy of Amateurism: Rice Policy of the U.S. Army Military Government in Korea, 1945-1948” by Jinwung Kim, Kyungpook National University

• “Planning the Peace and Enforcing the Surrender: Deterrence in the Allied Occupations of Germany and Japan” by Melissa Willard-Foster, University of California at Los Angeles. Text not available.