Submission Details
By email (preferred method):
Marked ‘Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize’ to Codner@rusi.org

Recorded delivery to:
Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize
FAO Michael Codner
Director of Military Sciences
Royal United Services Institute
Whitehall
London SW1A 2ET

Previous Winners
2010: Lukas Milevski
A Collective Failure of Grand Strategy: The West's Unintended Wars of Choice

2009: David Blagden
Strategic Thinking for the Age of Austerity

2008: Andrea Baumann
A Clash of Organisational Cultures?

2007: Julian Lewis
Double-I, Double N: A framework for counter insurgency

2006: Peter Layton
Redefining Warfare

2005: Julian Lewis
Nuclear Disarmament Versus Peace in the 21st Century

2003: Stevyn Gibson
Open Source Intelligence: An Intelligence Lifeline

2002: Ian Bellany
Men at War: The Sources of Morale

2001: Jim Storr
Neither Art nor Science - Towards a Discipline of War

2000: Chris Tweed.
From Doughnuts to Toffee Apples - A New Model of War and Peace

Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize

The Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize, the Royal United Services Institute’s annual competition awarded for original writing on contemporary issues of national and international defence and security issues, is now open for 2011.

Dating back to 1874, the Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize reflects and reinforces the Institute's status as a uniquely placed platform for free thinking debate on defence and security. Previous winners have discussed the challenge of integrating civilian and military efforts in stabilisation operations, an assessment of the methodology of modern insurgents and redefining warfare.

The competition is open to authors of any nationality and entries are particularly welcome from - but not exclusive to - members of the Armed Forces. One or more prizes within a total of £1,000 may be awarded.

The winner of the 2010 award was

Lukas Milevski

For his essay

A Collective Failure of Grand Strategy:
The West's Unintended Wars of Choice 

 

Lukas Milevski was awarded first prize and £500.00 for his essay. He is a Master's Graduate in Strategic Studies, University of Reading and, under the age of 30, is one of the youngest prizeholders. He has US and Latvian citizenship.

Runners up

Second Prize (£300):

'Air Power in the Mau Mau Conflict: The Government's Chief Weapon'
By Wing Commander Steve Chappell, Permanent Joint Headquarters, UK Ministry of Defence

 Joint Third Prize (£100):

'The Military Covenant and the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security
By Pádraig Belton, Freelance Journalist and DPhil Candidate, Trinity College, University of Oxford

Cyber Security: Time for Engagement and Debate'
By Debi Ashenden, Senior Lecturer, Department of Informatics & Systems Engineering, Cranfield University, UK Defence Academy

 

The winning essay was published in the RUSI Journal. Awards are made on the basis of originality, logical argument, sound analysis, style, clarity and conciseness.

Details on the competition rules and requirements are available here.

For further details please contact the Competition Manager, John Hemmings, Senior Fellows Co-ordinator / Research Analyst, RUSI at johnh@rusi.org

 



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