Brig. Gen. John S. Kem, Provost of the Army University and Deputy Commandant of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, recognized 41 faculty members for their published scholarly works during a ceremony at the Lewis and Clark Center Jan 25 at 3 p.m.
The Golden Pen program recognizes faculty members for their professional writing. The program is a peer-to-peer recognition with administration of the program and review of submissions conducted by volunteers from the college faculty.
According to William Pugh, program coordinator, 50 volunteers from the CGSC faculty and staff serve on three committees that nominate authors to receive Golden Pen awards. The Deputy Commandant is the approval authority for the awards. Procedures are laid out in a memorandum published by the program coordinator ahead of each meeting of the Golden Pen Award board. Military and Defense civilians employed by CGSC and its affiliated schools and satellite campuses, members of The Army School System battalion and adjunct faculty of CGSC (designated in writing) are eligible to participate in the program.
Military History Professor Dr. John Kuehn is a recipient of multiple awards including awards in each category in this event. He said scholarly writing has both intrinsic and extrinsic benefits. Writing helps to maintain your professional qualifications and reputation, he said. Kuehn has been at CGSC for more about 15 years and said he has seen an increase in scholarly writing since he joined the faculty. He credits some of the increase with changes in the colleges' faculty mix that has shifted from primarily military to a balance of military and civilian instructors. He said an increased academic emphasis at the college has inspired more instructors to write as well. "People today want to publish more than they did in the past," he said.
Kuehn pointed out that by writing for publication authors are adding to the body of knowledge of the fields in which they are experts and at the same time adding to the reputation and prestige of the college. Additionally, "some people just get a kick out of writing," he said
Authors self-nominate their works to the board where they are referred to the committee for the appropriate type of award. Once accepted by the committee chair, committee members review the submission and make recommendations. The program coordinator consolidates recommendations from the three committees and forwards them to the Deputy Commandant for approval.
Awards are given in three levels: Gold, Silver and Bronze. Gold is given for a book or book-length series of articles. Silver is awarded for a chapter of a book, an article, and/or stand-alone monograph that is not part of a degree awarding program. The Bronze Award is given for a short article, undocumented article, encyclopedia article, book review, op-ed piece or letter to the editor, or a body of work consisting of no more than five publications. The list of awardees for January follows. [Editor's Note. Numbers in parenthesis indicate number of awards in that category for each writer.]
Golden Pen Award (Books)
Dr. Mark T. Calhoun (1st), School for Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the U.S. Army, University Press of Kansas, 2015.
Dr. Ricardo A. Herrera (1st), SAMS, For Liberty and the Republic: The American Citizen as Soldier, 1775-1861, New York University Press, 2015.
Dr. John T. Kuehn (5th), Department of Military History, Napoleonic Warfare: The Operational Art of the Great Campaigns, Praeger, 2015.
Dr. Bruce E. Stanley (1st), SAMS, Outsourcing Security: Private Military Contractors and U.S. Foreign Policy, Potomac Books, 2015.
Silver Pen Awards (Articles)
Dr. David A. Anderson (19th), Department of Joint, Interagency and Multinational Operations (DJIMO), (Co-authored by Joshua A. Parker), "The Reality of the So-Called Pivot to Asia", to be published in Interagency Journal, February 2016.
Mr. Samuel R. Bethel (1st), Department of Logistics and Resource Operations (DLRO) (Fort Lee), "Sustainment in an Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) Environment", to be published in Army Sustainment Magazine January 2016.
Dr. Richard C. Berkebile (2nd), DJIMO, "Inchoate Revolution: Organizational Structure and Terrorism in the Domestic Security Environment", Through the Joint, Interagency, and Multinational Lens: Perspectives on the Operational Environment Volume I, July 2015.
Mr. Steven A. Boylan (3rd) and Lt. Col. Michelle M. Garcia (1st), Department of Command and Leadership (DCL), "Transitions, Collaboration and Risk: Do We Fully Comprehend the Implications?", Small Wars Journal October 2014.
Dr. Edward J. Coss (1st), DMH (Fort Belvoir), (Co-author), chapter on the British Army in the book European Armies of the French Revolution 1789-1802, Oklahoma University Press, 2015.
Dr. Daniel G. Cox (6th), SAMS, "Countering Insurgency and the Myth of the Cause", Journal of Strategic Security, August 2015.
Dr. William J. Davis Jr. (5th), DJIMO (Fort Lee), "Ethical Paradox, Cultural Incongruence, and the Need to Develop Moral Warriors", to be published by the Combat Studies Institute, Fall 2015.
Dr. Eileen Godinez (1st) and Dr. Barry B. Leslie (2nd), Army Management Staff College (AMSC), "Army Civilian Leadership Development: Self-Efficacy, Choice, and Learning Transfer", SAGE Journals (Adult Learning, Volume 26/3), June 2015.
Dr. Ricardo A. Herrera (4th), SAMS, "The zealous activity of Capt. Lee: Light-Horse Harry Lee and Petite Guerre", The Journal of Military History, January 2015.
Mr. Edward D. Jennings (3rd), Department of Tactics (DTAC), "Knowing is Half the Battle: The Command and General Staff Officer Course (CGSOC), Separating Fact from Myth and Setting Expectations", to be published in Military Officer Association Magazine 2016 (via Army University Press).
Mr. James L. Kennedy (2nd), DLRO (Fort Belvoir), "Business Case for Force Management", to be published in Military Review 2016.
Dr. John T. Kuehn (6th), DMH, "What was Mahan really saying? A Re-visitation of the Naval Theorist's Classic Work, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783", Military History Group Review, Volume 1, No. 1, December 2014.
Ms. Heather R. Karambelas (1st), DJIMO and Dr. O. Shawn Cupp (8th), DLRO, "Are we Doing Enough to Educate Our Military Leaders in Homeland Security Operations?", Through the Joint, Interagency, and Multinational Lens: Perspectives on the Operational Environment Volume I, July 2015.
Dr. John C. Mountcastle (1st), DMH (Fort Lee), "Early Acrimony: The Military and the Press in the Nineteenth Century", Army History Summer 2015, July 2015.
Mr. Bobbie J. Murray (1st), Department of Distance Education (DDE), "Ethical Considerations in Humanitarian Efforts", to be published as part of an Ethics Reader by The Army Press 2016.
Lt. Col. Paul S. Oh (1st), DJIMO, "Center of Gravity and Beyond: Power and Perils of Metaphors in Joint Planning", published in Through the Joint, Interagency, and Multinational Lens: Perspectives on the Operational Environment Volume I, July 2015.
Mr. Scott A. Porter (3rd), DCL, "Maintaining the Razor's Edge: An Argument for Army-wide Cultural Change", Small Wars Journal, August 2015.
Ms. Rhonda L. Quillin (1st), DTAC, "Army Values Keep Moral Injury at Bay", Army Magazine, May 2015.
Mr. Michael C. Sevcik (4th), SCP, "Preparing Soldiers of Character", Ethics Symposium Reader, Army Press, March 2015.
Dr. Ted A. Thomas (5th), DCL, "Leading from the Middle: Effective Followership", chapter in Followership in Action: Cases and Commentaries, Emerald Publishing Group, to be published in March 2016.
Chaplain (Maj.) Sean S. Wead (2nd), DCL, "Ethics, Combat, and a Soldier's Decision to Kill", Military Review March-April 2015.
Bronze Pen Awards (Book Review, Letters to the Editor, Op ed, Body of Work, etc.)
Dr. David A. Anderson (16th), DJIMO, for his body of work featuring three book reviews in the Military Review.
Mr. Rick Baillergeon (14th), DTAC, for a body of work consisting of five book reviews in Infantry Magazine, Armchair General, and Military Review.
Dr. Gary J. Bjorge (3rd), DMH, for his two encyclopedia entries in the Twentieth Century War and Conflict: A Concise Encyclopedia by Wiley Blackwell.
Mr. Robert M. Brown (2nd), DJIMO, for his body of work featuring two book reviews in the Military Review.
Command Sgt. Maj. Micheal H. Clowser (1st), Army University, for his article on enlisted soldiers and the Army University in the Military Review.
Mr. David T. Culkin (1st), DDE, for his body of work featuring an article in the Proceedings of the Adult Education Research Conference and a book review in Adult Learning.
Dr. William J. Davis, Jr. (2nd), DJIMO (Fort Lee), for his body of work featuring two newspaper op-eds in the Virginian Pilot.
Mr. Dale C. Eikmeier (3rd), DJIMO, for his article on operational art in the Small Wars Journal.
Mr. Harry C. Garner III (1st), DCL (Fort Belvoir), for his body of work featuring two book reviews in the Military Review.
Mr. James L. Kennedy (2nd), DLRO (Fort Belvoir), for his body of work featuring a book review and two newspaper articles in Military Review and the Fort Belvoir Eagle.
Dr. John T. Kuehn (10th), DMH, for his body of work consisting of an article in the International Journal of Naval History and three book reviews in Proceedings, H-War, and CIMSEC.
Dr. Harold A. Laurence IV (4th), FSD / CGSS, for his body of work featuring two book reviews in the Military Review.
Mr. Brian C. Leakey (1st), DTAC, for his article on the commander's intent in the Small Wars Journal.
Lt. Col. Thomas M. Magee (2nd), The Army School System, for his article on tips for new contracting officers in Army Sustainment.
Dr. Derek R. Mallett (1st), DMH (Fort Gordon), for his body of work consisting of three book reviews in H-Net and Military Review and an encyclopedia entry in Germany at War: 400 Years of Military History published by ABC-CLIO.
Mr. Richard A. McConnell (6th), DTAC, for his body of work featuring two book reviews in the Finest Hour and Army History.
Mr. Jesse McIntyre III (1st), DDE, for his body of work featuring two book reviews in the Military Review.
Dr. Jon B. Mikolashek (3rd), DMH (Fort Belvoir), for his body of work consisting of an article on the Battle of Wanat in the Military 1.com and a book review in Army History.
Mr. Rodney S. Morris (1st), DDE, for his body of work consisting of three newspaper articles in the Fort Leavenworth Lamp.
Lt. Col. Brian L. Steed (1st), DMH, for his body of work consisting of two book reviews in Military Review and Proceedings and an article in the Studies and Lessons Learned Journal of the Jordanian Army.
Mr. Kevin L. Watson (1st), DTAC (Fort Belvoir), for his body of work featuring two book reviews in the Military Review.
Chaplain (Maj.) Sean S. Wead (1st), DCL, for his featured book review in The Chaplains Corps Journal.
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