Strategy Essay Competition
     Essays 2001

The 20^th Annual Competition

On May 17 and 18, 2001, the National Defense University convened a panel of judges at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, DC, to evaluate the entries in the 20th annual Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Strategy Essay Competition. The 2001 judges were:

Kamal A. Beyoghlow, Marine Corps Command and Staff College

Lieutenant Colonel James Jay Carafano, USA, Institute for National Strategic Studies

Charles C. Chadbourn III, Naval War College

John C. Hodell, Naval War College

Mark H. Jacobsen, Marine Corps Command and Staff College

Richard A. Melanson, National War College

James A. Mowbray, Air War College

Patricia S. Pond, U.S. Army War College

Paul M. Severance, Industrial College of the Armed Forces

Colonel Frederick R. Strain, USAF, Air War College

Colonel Robert H. Taylor, USA (Ret.), U.S. Army War College

Lieutenant Colonel Robert M. Toguchi, USA, National War College

The four winning essays are published in this volume, Essays 2001. The winning authors were presented with certificates signed by the Chairman, as well as gift certificates for books of their choice, provided through the generosity of the National Defense University Foundation.

The 2001 competition was administered by Robert A. Silano, Director of Publications and Editor of Joint Force Quarterly, in the Institute for National Strategic Studies, with the assistance of William R. Bode, General Editor, NDU Press, and George C. Maerz, Jeffrey D. Smotherman, and Lisa M. Yambrick, members of the editorial staff of NDU Press.

A complete list of the entries in the 2001 competition follows.

Air War College

Lieutenant Colonel Harry W. Conley, USAF, Not with Impunity: Assessing U.S. Policy for Retaliating to a Chemical or Biological Attack

Lieutenant Colonel Mark E. Garrard, USAF, War Termination in the
Persian Gulf: Problems and Prospects

Colonel Roman N. Hrycaj, USAF, Guiding the United States Government Response to an Overseas Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or
Nuclear Disaster

Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Rehbein, USAF, "Managing" Proliferation in South Asia: A Case for Assistance to Unsafe Nuclear Arsenals

Lieutenant Colonel Gary C. Webb, USAF, Between Iraq and a Hard
Place: Fighting Guerrilla Warfare in the Air

Air Command and Staff College

Major Jeffrey T. Butler, USAF, UAVs and ISR Sensor Technology

Major Michael A. Carlino, USA, On Some of the Moral Limits Regarding Strategic Attack

Marine Corps War College

Lieutenant Colonel Richard R. Ayres, USAF, Dangerous Information: The Misuse of Information Capabilities in Command and Control

Lieutenant Colonel C.L. Hudson, USMC, Chechnya: An Analysis of the Russian Strategic Decision Making Process

Zachary Z. Teich, U.S. Department of State, Primacy: Grand Strategy for
a Second American Century

National War College

Colonel Drew A. Bennett, USMC, The Navy's Use of Special and Incentive Pays: Sailing Away from Jointness

Lieutenant Colonel Mark A. Bucknam, USAF, The Eisenhower Administration and the Suez Crisis: Spying on Allies and Friends

Olivier C. Carduner, U. S. Agency for International Development, Values as a Strategic Constraint: How Cultural Values Undermine U.S. Foreign Policy in Colombia

Captain Mel Ferguson, USN, The Role of Ethics in U.S. Military Humanitarian Intervention

Lieutenant Colonel Michael W. Isherwood, USAF, Avoiding Vertigo: Building a New Strategic Foundation

David Leatherwood, Defense Intelligence Agency, The Hazards of Strange Bedfellows: The United States, Nigeria, and Peacekeeping in West Africa

Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen A. Mahoney-Norris, USAFR, Huntington Revisited: Is Conservative Realism Still Essential for the Military Ethic?

Lieutenant Colonel John N.T. Shanahan, USAF, Shock-Based Operations: New Wine in an Old Bottle

Naval War College

Lieutenant Commander Steven M. Barney, USN, Innocent Packets? Applying Navigational Pegimes from the Law of the Sea Convention by Analogy to the Realm of Cyberspace

Major Russell Bodine, USA, Expanding SPACECOM's Role in National Cyber Defense

Lieutenant Commander W. Scott Gureck, USN, Network-Centric Warfare and Complex Humanitarian Emergencies, Meet Napster!

Lieutenant David T. Lee, USNR, Humanitarian Intervention to Stop Genocide

Major Donald C. Locke, Jr., USAF, Psychological Factors and the Enemy Leader: Can Information Be Used to Facilitate Surrender?

Commander Charles J. Logan, USN, Engaging Iran: Options for the New Administration

U.S. Army War College

Colonel Marc R. Bertucchi, French Army, U.S. National Missile Defense (NMD) and European Security

Lieutenant Colonel Kevin M. Dietrick, USA, Whence the Army's Role in Space?

Lieutenant Colonel Wanda L. Good, USA, The Damascus Paradox: The Code of the Warrior--The Kinder, Gentler Army

Commander David P. Gorman, USN, Increasing the Adaptability of DOD Forces and Organizations

Lieutenant Colonel Roy C. Howle, Jr., USA, Yn Evitable War: Engaged Containment and Defining Moments in the U.S.-China Relationship

Colonel Kurt A. McNeely, USA, Agricultural Terrorism: Breaking New Ground

Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel H. Sledge, Jr., USA, Broken Promises: The United States, China, and Nuclear Nonproliferation

Colonel Richard Wilson, Australian Army, Australia's Defence Review 2000: A Step in the Right Direction