Lint Center Announces Virtual Archive for National Security (LC-VANS)
Lint Center Announces Virtual Archive for National Security (LC-VANS)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7/29/2016
The Lint Center for National Security Studies, a non-profit organization focused on supporting
the next generation of America’s National Security professionals through scholarship and
mentoring opportunities, today is pleased to announce the launch of its new Virtual Archive for
National Security.
It was only nine years after the devastation at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and no one believed that a
surprise attack could happen to U.S. forces ever again. But it did,” observed James R. Lint,
Founder and CEO of the Lint Center for National Security Studies. “The surprise attack by
communist forces from the North in Korea, sparking the Korean War, changed American
national security assessments, as it helped to crystalize the implications of strategic surprise in
geopolitics as well as to American security interests globally.”
The Lint Center Virtual Archive for National Security (LC-VANS) strives to voice, catalog, and
document the experiences of veterans, contractors, and civilian workers involved in major
pivotal points in U.S. national security and international affairs. By providing a resource to
students, historians and observers alike the Lint Center seeks to provide the information and
historical record necessary to ensure that pivotal mistakes are not repeated and so that America
does not see the vulnerability of biases enabling strategic surprises perpetuated.
The Lint Center for National Security Studies desires to preserve the histories of individuals who
actively shaped and developed the history of the National Security of the United States as it
presently stands.
Your experience as a veteran, contractor, or civil service member is essential to help others
understand how enemies can see the possibility to advance due to recent drawbacks, especially in
an early period of an emerging war.
“Being in the national security career field is not an easy profession,” Lint adds. “No one hears
about the minor successes, but everyone knows mistakes can be costly. We can now learn from
our mistakes, in order to confront similar situations where enemies may see a window of
vulnerability.”
LC-VANS allows you to submit your story in two ways as we collect and receive content in
these primary ways.
Submissions from the community about an interesting topic via the Contact Form.
Personal story submissions or interviews via Submit Your Story Form.
This press release was prepared by Lint Center volunteer, Stephanie Balepogi.
About the Lint Center:
The Lint Center for National Security Studies, Inc., founded in 2007, is a non-profit IRS 501 (c)
(3) organization awards award merit-based scholarships and mentoring programs for students
pursuing careers in national service with a particular focus on counterintelligence, military
intelligence, national security and cross-cultural studies. The Center is Veteran and minority
operated and managed. It awards scholarships semi-annually in both January and July. For more
information, please visit http://www.lintcenter.org/.
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