The winner will receive a hardcover copy of the book My Nuclear Family: A Coming-of-Age in America's Twenty-first-Century Millitary.

In My Nuclear Family, Brownfield writes about how he loved the navy for its “rigidity and its clarity in separating right from wrong”; how he cut his teeth there on the principles of energy and violence, strategy and thermodynamics, on war doctrine and weapons systems. The question was never if he was capable of killing; it was simply about methods and rationales. 

The unsentimental education of an idealistic, brilliant Ameircan naval officer.