Acceptance essay

It became a Saturday routine. Heading home from shopping with my family, we were met by a group of angry demonstrators on one side, police in full riot gear on the other. The issue? The United States intended to station Pershing II's in what was then West Germany. "Nuts," the Germans replied. Of course, what I witnessed firsthand was the Reagan Administration's strategic defense policy in action. I spent six years living on the front …

…your emphasis on defense policy in course such as Nuclear Strategy and Arms Control; NATO Security Issues; Soviet Strategy and Issues of US Intelligence; Regional Security Problems; and Space and Information Warfare. My eventual professional goal is to teach at the National Defense University or to become a consultant of the Department of Defense in matters of strategic defense policy. The opportunity to learn from your distinguished faculty should help me to achieve my goals.