1st Place — $1,000
“Lessons in Reconstitution from the Russia-Ukraine War: Gaining Asymmetric Advantage through Transformative Reconstitution”
Maj. Thomas L. Haydock, U.S. Army National Guard; and Maj. Jack C. Meeker, U.S. Army National Guard
2nd Place — $750
“Meeting Expectations: Failure in Ukraine Will Not Change the Russian Aerospace Defense Force”
Maj. F. Jon Nesselhuf, U.S. Air Force
3nd Place — $500
“What Constitutes a Capability? Leveraging the Ukraine Experience to Define an Overused Term”
Lt. Col. Kyle J. Hatzinger, PhD, U.S. Army; and Lt. Col. Molly J. Schaefer, U.S. Army
Honorable Mentions
“Bayraktars and Grenade-Dropping Quadcopters II: Year Two of Ukraine-Russia Drone Warfare”
Capt. Josef Danczuk, New York Army National Guard
“The Great Arsenal of Democracy”
Capt. Trevor M. Barton, U.S. Army
“The Russia-Ukraine War: It Takes a Land Force to Defeat a Land Force”
Lt. Col. Amos C. Fox, U.S. Army, Retired
“Something Old and Something New: Lessons from the Ukraine-Russia War”
Col. Daniel Sukman, U.S. Army
“Trust the Process: A Deliberate Approach to Capturing Lessons Learned from the Russia-Ukraine War in U.S. Army Doctrine”
Maj. Aaron Anderson, U.S. Army
The topic of the 2024 DePuy writing competition was “The Russia-Ukraine War.” Participants were encouraged to identify original salient topics examining dimensions of the conflict that were not treated in the available professional literature elsewhere.
Military Review thanks our esteemed panel of judges for their careful, insightful, and timely evaluation of the manuscript submissions.
For information on the General William E. DePuy Special Topics Writing Competition, including the 2025 topic and how to submit an entry, visit https://www.armyupress.army.mil/DePuy-Writing-Competition/.
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