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Publications

 

REFERRED JOURNAL ARTICLES:

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  • “The High Value of Targeting: A Conceptual Model for Using HVT against a Networked Enemy.”  Defence Studies, 12:3 (September 2012), pp. 413-433.

  • “Back to the Future: Managing Training to ‘Win in a Complex World.’”  Military Review, 95:1 (January-February 2015), pp. 52-61.

  • “Reconsidering the Theory and Practice of High Value Targeting.”  Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis, 7:7 (August 2015), pp. 23-30. 

  • “COINing an Ethical Dilemma: The Impunity of Afghanistan’s Indigenous Security Forces.”  Journal of Military Ethics, 14:3-4 (October-December 2015), pp. 272-275.

  • “Panjwai: A Tale of Two COINs in Afghanistan.”  Small Wars & Insurgencies, 27:1 (February 2016), pp. 106-131.

  • “China, the United States, and the Future of Regional Security Order–An Unhappy Coexistence.”  Asian Security, 12:1 (January-April 2016), pp. 1-28. 

  • “Binary Bullets: The Ethics of Cyberwarfare.”  Journal of Military Ethics, 15:1 (May 2016), pp. 69-73.

  • “Defeating the Islamic State: Reconciling Pressure and Precision High Value Targeting.”  Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis, 8:9 (September 2016), pp. 10-16.

  • “The 75th Ranger Regiment Military Intelligence Battalion: Modernizing for Multi-Domain Battalion.”  Military Review, 98:4 (July-August 2018), pp. 6-17.

  • “Conceptualizing Conflict in the Gray Zone: A Comparative Analysis of Diplomatic, Military, and Political Lenses.”  International Journal of Law and Political Sciences, 12:11 (2018).

  • “ISIS-K: Deadly Nuisance or Strategic Threat?”  Small Wars & Insurgencies, 30:2 (May 2019), pp. 265-278. 

  • “IS-K:  Defeating the New Central and South Asia Jihad.”  Texas National Security Review (August 13, 2019).

  • “Asymmetric Killing: Risk Avoidance, Just War, and the Warrior Ethos.”  Journal of Military Ethics, 19:1 (May 2020), pp 77-81.

  • “Review of the special issue ‘robotics autonomous systems and warfare,’ Small Wars and Insurgencies 31, 4 June 2020.” Small Wars & Insurgencies 32: 3 (2021), pp. 550-570. 

  • "U.S. Presidents' Uses of Drone Warfare." Defense & Security Analysis (forthcoming).

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NON-REFERRED JOURNAL ARTICLES:

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  • “Partnership ‘Till it Hurts: The Use of Fusion cells to Establish Unity of Effort Between SOF (Yin) and Conventional Forces (Yang).”  Small Wars Journal (May 2010).

  • “Intellectualizing the US Army’s Rebalance within Asia.”  Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin, 40:3 (July-September 2014), pp. 53-57.

  • “Capabilities Sets: Refining the U.S. Army’s Rebalance to Asia.”  Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin, 41:4 (December 2015), pp. 30-36.

  • “The 75th Ranger Regiment Military Intelligence Battalion: Modernizing for Multi-Domain Battalion.”  Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin, 45:2 (April-June 2019), pg. 14-24. 

 

BOOKS CHAPTERS:

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  • “High Value Targeting and International Society’s ‘Warfare Trap.’”  Handbook of Terrorist and Insurgent Groups: A Global Survey of Threats, Tactics, and Characteristics (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, forthcoming).

  • “Blending Counterinsurgency to Defeat Hybrid Threats.”  Handbook of Terrorist and Insurgent Groups: A Global Survey of Threats, Tactics, and Characteristics (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, forthcoming).

  • "Conceptualizing Global Order in an Era of Remote Warfare." Drones and Global Order: Implications of remote warfare on international society (Routledge, forthcoming).

  • "A Syncretic Interpretation of Drone Warfare." Drones and Global Order: Implications of remote warfare on international society (Routledge, forthcoming).

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BOOKS:

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  • Drones and Global Order: Implications of remote warfare on international society (London: Routledge, 2021, co-edited with Professor William Maley and Senior Lecturer Srinjoy Bose).

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OPINION PIECES, PEER REVIEWED BLOGS, POLICY BRIEFS:

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  • “The answers for Afghanistan are pretty damn simple – and here they are guys.”  Best Defense (September 28, 2010). 

  • “Rebalancing the US Army Towards Asia.”  Asia Pacific Bulletin, 244 (December 05, 2013).

  • “The real question isn’t naval presence but how to best empower U.S. partners in Asia.”  Best Defense (August 15, 2014). 

  • “Asia-Pacific Strategic Rebalancing Aided by Wider Use of Regionally Aligned Forces.”  Army Magazine, 65:5 (May 2015), pp. 24-25. 

  • “PACOM’s Role in Sustaining Indo-Asia-Pacific Security.”  Asia Pacific Bulletin, 328 (November 4, 2015). 

  • “Sponsoring Asia-Pacific Security: PACOM's Role in Reconciling Bilateral and Multilateral Security Structures.”  Defense Technical Information Center (May 2016).

  • “Is PACOM Preparing for the Right Security Challenges?”  Real Clear Defense (March 01, 2016). 

  • “Mission Command: Addressing the Cause and Effect of Leadership Challenges.”  Modern War Institute (March 07, 2016).

  • “Modernizing for Multidomain Battle: Rangers Retool With Provisional MI Battalion.”  Army Magazine, 68:4 (April 2018), pp. 20-22. 

  • “The Islamic State in the Khorasan Province: Afghanistan’s new Salafist Jihadism.”  Middle East Institute (October 19, 2018). 

  • “Modernizing Army Intelligence for Multi-Domain Operations.”  Army Magazine, 69:11 (November 2019), pg. 30-34.  

  • "Warfighters in Ivory Towers: Does The US Army Need Officers with Doctoral Degrees?" Modern War Institute (July 08, 2020).

  •  “Fighting for Intelligence at Cornell University: The U.S. Army’s Approach to Building Strategic Thinkers and Leaders.” Cornell Policy Review (October 02, 2020).

  • "The U.S. Army and the Future of U.S. Cyberwarfare." Cornell Policy Review (March 02, 2021). 

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