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2019 Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize

The Winner of the 2019 Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize, the Royal United Services Institute’s (RUSI) annual competition awarded for original writing on contemporary issues of national and international defence and security, has been announced.

Dating back to 1874, the Trench Gascoigne Essay Prize reflects and reinforces the Institute's status as a uniquely placed platform for free thinking debate on defence and security.

The winner of the Trench-Gascoigne Prize Essay Competition for 2019 is Captain Patrick Hinton for his essay, Strategic Culture – In Defiance of a Structural World Order. Patrick is a British Army officer serving in 47th Regiment Royal Artillery where he works with Watchkeeper, the Army's tactical unmanned aerial surveillance system.

The Competition is sponsored by DXC Technology.

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