The Intelligence Studies Project of the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce the winner and two semifinalists in the ninth-annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The recipient of the \u201cInman Award\u201d is A.J. Dilts<\/strong>, a 2023 graduate of Harvard University in History and Government. His paper The Architecture of Advice: How the Bureau of Intelligence and Research Shaped President Kennedy’s Policy in Vietnam, 1961-1963<\/a> <\/em>focuses on the <\/em>active role Roger Hilsman\u2019s Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the State Department played in informing – and influencing – President Kennedy\u2019s policies on Vietnam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The graduate semifinalists are Wright Smith<\/strong> and Nicholas Blanchette<\/strong>, both PhD students in Security Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their paper “Our Bomber Will Always Get Through”: Cognitive Barriers to US-UK Wartime Military Intelligence During the Air Offensives of 1939-1941<\/em><\/a> <\/em>discusses the British and German air campaigns in the early years of World War II and explains how cognitive biases distorted the assessments of UK and American intelligence analysts and strategists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n