Adams Center Essay Contest Winners, 2008-2009

Essay Contest Papers Top Level

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

First prize:  $2000 

“Relational Rearmament: The U.S. Air Force’s German Air Force Monograph Project and Its Effect on the West German-American Alliance, 1952-1958” by Ryan D. Shaughnessy, Ohio State University

Second prize:  $1000 

“The International Dimensions of North Vietnamese Strategy in the 1972 Easter Offensive” by Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Yale University

Third prize:  $500 

“In Brzezinski’s Forge:  Fashioning the Carter Doctrine’s Military Instrument” by Frank L. Jones, U.S. Army War College

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)

• “Homeland Defense in the 1950s:  The Origins of the Ground Observer Corps” by Kenton Clymer, Northern Illinois University
• The Cold War Comes to Lincoln: The Lincoln Air Force Base, 1952-1966 by Leland Jacobs, Lincoln Northeast High School
• The Light Infantry Division: Cold War Chimera by Kevin D. Stringer, Winkel, Switzerland