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LAST CALL!

2016 General William E. DePuy Special
Topics Writing Competition
This year’s theme is Educating the Force: What is the right
balance between training and education?
Possible topics include but are not limited to—
Do soldiers really need higher education? If so, to what level?
Are the Army’s professional military education (PME) programs teaching the right objectives; and, if
so, are graduates applying them? How should the Army ensure PME reflects the force’s needs?
How should the Army measure the effects of PME on the conduct of Army operations? What
metrics should it use?
How should the Army measure the effects of Army education on soldiers’ careers?
How well is the Army taking advantage of any educational opportunities it provides soldiers?
How well are the civilian study programs the Army pays for benefitting the force or the careers of
soldiers? What fields of study does the Army need most?
How should the Army change the way it uses the expertise soldiers gain through civilian study?

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1st Place
2nd Place
3rd Place

Contest Closes 11 July 2016
$1,000 and publication in Military Review
$750 and consideration for publication in Military Review
$500 and consideration for publication in Military Review

For information on how to submit an entry, go to http://militaryreview.army.mil.

U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to 1st Brigade Combat
Team, 82nd Airborne Division, load a CH-47 Chinook
helicopter prior to an airborne operation on Sicily Drop
Zone at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 6 January 2016.
MILITARY REVIEW  May-June 2016

(Photo by Sgt. Juan F. Jimenez, U.S. Army)

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