Earlier this year, The Strategy Bridge asked civilian and military students around the world to participate in our sixth annual student writing contest on the subject of strategy. The response was once again amaxing!
Fortunately, we had an amazing set of partners in support from higher and military education institutions around the world. In particular, we'd like to thank the panel of judges who helped us choose the winners, including key leaders from the Arizona State University, Lund University (Sweden), the University of Portland, the U.S. Air University, the U.S. Army War College, the U.S. Marine Corps University, the U.S. Naval War College, the U.S. National War College, and the Australian Defense College.
More importantly, we would like to announce and congratulate our contest winners:
First Place: Alyce Abdalla, U.S. National War College, “U.S. Strategy and the Future of Money: Advancing U.S. Interests During a Financial Transformation”
Second Place: Ryan Reynolds, Mississippi State University, “Shaking the Dungeon: James Baldwin and the Strategies of Subversion and Surveillance”
Third Place: James M. Davitch, Virginia Tech University, “Do Not Trust Your Gut: How to Improve Strategists’ Decision Making”
Third Place: Jonah Lo, Ng Kang Jie, and Hannah Lo, National University of Singapore and Sciences Po Paris, “Reconstructing the Ladder: Towards a more considered Model of Escalation”
Third Place: Roni Yadlin, U.S. Air University, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, “A Strategist’s Cast of Characters: The Critical Attributes and Skills of Strategic Decision-Makers”
Honorable Mention: Joshua Damir, U.S. Military Academy at West Point, “Opposite Sides of the COIN: Understanding Unlikely Insurgent Successes and Failures”
Honorable Mention: Olivia Garard, Saint John’s College, “The Emergence of War in Plato’s Republic”
Honorable Mention: Amelia Griffith, U.S. Naval War College, “A Transformative U.S. Strategy for Africa: A Proposal for New Wine in a New Bottle”
Honorable Mention: Steven Nolan, U.S. Joint Advanced Warfighting School, “Escaping the Cave: An Analysis of Russian and American Strategic Cultures Influence on War, Peace, and the Realm In Between”
Honorable mention: Ignacio Maramba, U.S. National War College, “Sea-merica 2040: Leveraging Climate Change to Win Friends and Influence the South China Sea”
Honorable Mention: Dennis Murphy, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, “Sorting Through the Noise: The Evolving Nature of the Fog of War“
Honorable Mention: Alysha Taylor and Jeffrey Turner, Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, “Defense Acquisition Realignment and Modernization“
We'll publish their essays in a series beginning on 29 August 2022. We appreciate all the great submissions from the contest participants, and we feel incredibly lucky to be part of such a great community of readers, thinkers, and writers.
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