The Moncado Prizes

The Moncado Prizes are awarded annually to the authors of the four best articles published in The Journal of Military History during the previous calendar year.

2011 Moncado Prize Winners:

  • Yuval Noah Harari, “Armchairs, Coffee, and Authority: Eye-witnesses and Flesh-witnesses Speak about War,” The Journal of Military History 74 (January 2010)
  • Marc Milner, “Stopping the Panzers: Reassessing the Role of 3rd Canadian Infantry Division in Normandy, 7-10 June 1944,” The Journal of Military History 74 (April 2010)
  • Greg Kennedy, “Anglo-American Strategic Relations and Intelligence Assessments of Japanese Air Power 1934-1941,” The Journal of Military History 74 (July 2010)
  • John T. Kuehn, “The U.S. Navy General Board and Naval Arms Limitation: 1922-1937,” The Journal of Military History 74 (October 2010)

2010 Moncado Prize Winners:
  • John Morgan, “War Feeding War? The Impact of Logistics on the Napoleonic Occupation of Catalonia,” The Journal of Military History 73 (January 2009)
  • Irving W. Levinson, “A New Paradigm for an Old Conflict: The Mexico-United States War,” The Journal of Military History 73 (April 2009)
  • Brian Holden Reid, “Michael Howard and the Evolution of Modern War Studies,” The Journal of Military History 73 (July 2009)
  • Kevin M. Boylan, “The Red Queen’s Race: Operation Washington Green and Pacification, 1969-70,” The Journal of Military History 73 (October 2009)

2009 Moncado Prize Winners:
  • Bradley Lynn Coleman, “Recovering the Korean War Dead, 1950-1958: Graves Registration, Forensic Anthropology, and Wartime Memorialization,” The Journal of Military History 72 (January 2008)
  • Kenneth P. Werrell, "Across the Yalu: Rules of Engagement and the Communist Air Sanctuary during the Korean War," The Journal of Military History 72 (April 2008)
  • Edward L. Dreyer, “Zhao Chongguo: A Professional Soldier of the Former Han Dynasty,” The Journal of Military History 72 (July 2008)
  • Andrew J. Birtle, “PROVN, Westmoreland, and the Historians: A Reappraisal," The Journal of Military History 72 (October 2008)

2008 Moncado Prize Winners:
  • Donald Kagay, "The Defense of the Crown of Aragon during the War of the Two Pedros, 1356-1366," The Journal of Military History 71 (January 2007)
  • Lorraine White, "Strategic Geography and the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy's Failure to Recover Portugal, 1640-1668." The Journal of Military History 71 (April 2007)
  • William Philpott and Martin Alexander, "The French and British Field Force: Moral Support or Material Contribution?" The Journal of Military History 71 (July 2007)
  • Douglas Peifer, "The Past in the Present: Passion, Politics, and the Historical Profession in the German and British Pardons Campaign." The Journal of Military History 71 (October 2007)

2007 Moncado Prize Winners:
  • Andrea Brady, "Dying with Honour: Literary Propaganda and the Second English Civil War," The Journal of Military History 70 (January 2006): 9-30.
  • Stephen R. Ortiz, "The 'New Deal' for Veterans: The Economy Act, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Origins of New Deal Dissent," The Journal of Military History 70 (April 2006): 415-438.
  • Tim Cook, "The Politics of Surrender: Canadian Soldiers and the Killing of Prisoners in the Great War," The Journal of Military History 70 (July 2006): 637-666.
  • Ciro Paoletti, "Prince Eugene of Savoy, the Toulon Expedition of 1707, and the English Historians-A Dissenting View," The Journal of Military History 70 (October 2006): 939-962.

2006 Moncado Prize Winners:
  • Kenneth Swope, "Crouching Tigers, Secret Weapons"
  • Nicholas Lambert, "Strategic Command and Control for Maneuver Warfare"
  • Kaushik Roy, "Military Synthesis in South Asia"
  • Timothy Mulligan, "Ship of the Line or Atlantic Raider?"

2005 Moncado Prize Winners:
  • Roger V. Dingman, "Language at War: US Marine Corps Japanese Language Officers in the Pacific War"
  • Robert S. Burrell, "Breaking the Cycle of Iwo Jima Mythology: A Strategic Study of Operation Detachment"
  • Joseph C. Fitzharris, "Field Officer Courts and US Civil War Military Justice"
  • G. J. Bryant, "Asymetric Warfare: The British Experience in Eighteenth-Century India"

2004 Moncado Prize Winners:
  • Michael V. Leggiere, "From Berlin to Leipzig: Napoleon's Gamble in North Germany, 1813"
  • Robert A. Doughty, "French Strategy in 1914: Joffre's Own"
  • Terence M. Holmes, "Classical Blitzkrieg: The Untimely Modernity of Schlieffen's Cannae Programme"
  • Jon Tetsuro Sumida, "A Matter of Timing: The Royal Navy and the Tactics of Decisive Battle, 1912-1916"

2003 Moncado Prize Winners:
  • Patrick J. Kelly, "Strategy, Tactics and Turf Wars: Tirpitz and the Oberkommando der Marine, 1892-1895"
  • Brian M. Linn, "The American Way of War Revisited"
  • Roger R. Reese, "Red Army Professionalism and the Communist Party."
  • Thomas R. Searle, "'It Made a Lot of Sense to Kill Skilled Workers': The Firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945"

2002 Moncado Prize Winners:
  • David J. Fitzpatrick, "Emory Upton and the Citizen Soldier"
  • Edward Westermann, "Fighting for the Heavens from the Ground: German Ground-based Air Defenses in the Great War, 1914-1918"
  • Michael Coles, "Ernest J. King And The British Pacific Fleet: The Conferences at Quebec, 1944 ("Octagon")"
  • Michael I. Whitby, "Matelots, Martinets, and Mutineers: The Mutiny in HCMS Iroquois, 19 July 1943"

2001 Moncado Prize Winners:
  • Tan Tai-Yong, "An Imperial Home-Front: Punjab and the First World War."
  • Gian P. Gentile, "Shaping the Past Battlefield, 'For the Future'" The United States Strategic Bombing Survey's Evaluation of the American Air War Against Japan."
  • Harold R. Winton, "Toward An American Philosophy of Command."

2000 Moncado Prize Winners:
  • D. George Boyce, "From Assaye to the Assaye: Reflections on British Government, Force and Moral Authority in India."
  • John Ferris, "Fighter Defence Before Fighter Command: The Rise of Strategic Air Defence in Great Britain, 1917-1934."
  • William Rawling, "The Challenge of Modernization: The Royal Canadian Navy and Antisubmarine Weapons, 1944-1945."
  • Conrad C. Crane, "Raiding the Beggar's Pantry: The Search for Airpower Strategy in the Korean War."

1999 Moncado Prize Winners:
  • Nicholas A. Lambert, "'Our Bloody Ships' or 'Our Bloody System'? Jutland and the Loss of the Battle Cruisers, 1916."
  • Robert G. Angevine, "The Rise and Fall of the Office of Naval Intelligence, 1882-1892: A Technological Perspective."
  • Xiaoming Zhang, "China and the Air War in Korea, 1950-1953."
  • Mark R. Grandstaff, "Preserving the 'Habits and Usages of War': William Tecumseh Sherman, Professional Reform, and the U.S. Army Officer Corps, 1865-1881, Revisited."

1998 Moncado Prize Winners:
  • A. J. Bacevich, "The Paradox of Professionalism: Eisenhower, Ridgway, and the Challenge to Civilian Control, 1953-1955," 61/2:303-333.
  • David T. Fautua, "The Long Pull Army: NSC 68, the Korean War, and the Creation of the Cold War U.S. Army," 61/1: 93-120.
  • D. M. Giangreco, "Casualty Projections for the U.S. Invasions of Japan, 1945-1946: Planning and Policy Implications," 61/3: 521-581.
  • Michael A. Palmer, "'The Soul's Right Hand': Command and Control in the Age of Fighting Sail, 1652-1827," 61/4: 679-705.

1997 Moncado Prize Winners:
  • Antulio J. Echevarria, "General Staff Historian Hugo Freiherr von Freytag-Loringhoven and the Dialectics of German Military Thought," 60/3: 471-494.
  • Phillip S. Meilinger, "Trenchard and 'Morale Bombing': The Evolution of Royal Air Force Doctrine Before World War II," 60/2: 243-270.
  • Antonio Santosuosso, "Kadesh Revisited: Reconstruction of the Battle Between the Egyptians and the Hittites," 60/3: 423-444.
  • Xiaoming Zhang, "The Vietnam War, 1964-1969: A Chinese Perspective," 60/4: 731-762.