The 19th annual competition.

On May 18 and 19, 2000, the National Defense University convened a panel of judges at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, D.C., to evaluate the entries in the 19th annual Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Essay Competition. The 2000 judges were:

Lieutenant Colonel James J. 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

Tracy G. Maloney, Air Command and Staff College

Colonel John H. McDonald, Jr., USA, National War College

Richard A. Melanson, National War College

James A. Mowbray, Air War College

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

Colonel Richard W. Roan, USMC, Institute for National Strategic Studies

Joe Strange, Marine Corps War College

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

The five winning essays are published in this volume, Essays 2000. The winning authors were presented with certificates signed by …