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Books
Mud, Blood, and Oil Paint: The Remarkable Year that Made Winston Churchill
University Press of Kentucky, Forthcoming Spring 2024
Patton: Battling with History
The University of Missouri Press, April 2020
The First Space War: How the Patterns of History and Principles of STEM Will Shape Its Form (with T.K. Rogers)
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019
21ST Century Patton: Strategic Insights for the Modern Era
Annapolis, MD: US Naval Institute Press, 2016
Journal Articles
When The Fans Didn't Go Wild: the 2020 MLB Season as a Natural Experiment on Home Team Performance (with Elliott B. Fullmer)
Baseball Research Journal, Fall 2021
Symposium on Synthetic Experiences: How Popular Culture Matters for Images of International Relations (with Paul Musgrave)
International Studies Quarterly, March 2019
Synthetic Experiences: How Popular Culture Matters for Images of International Relations (with Paul Musgrave)
International Studies Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, December 2017
The Imitation Game: Why Don’t Rising Powers Innovate Their Militaries More? (with Yu-Ming Liou and Paul Musgrave)
Washington Quarterly, Fall 2015
Burke and Clausewitz on the Limitation of War (with Brian Smith)
Journal of International Political Theory, October 2015
Patton as a Counterinsurgent?: Lessons from an Unlikely COIN-danista
Small Wars Journal, Volume 10, Number 1, January 2014
Statesmanship and the Problem of Theoretical Generalization (with Brian Smith)
Polity, Volume 42, Number 2, April 2010
Media Appearances
George S. Patton: A Complicated, Gifted, but Egotistical General, Interview
Constant Wonder, Episode 952, April 2021
Studying Patton, Interview
Law and Liberty Podcast, January 2022
Patton (1970), Interview
Based on a True Story Podcast, July 2020
Tom Clancy, National Security Advisor?, Interview
National Public Radio – Catskill Review of Books, November 2017
All Quiet on the Dunkirk Front, Interview
Small Wars Journal, September 2017
Reviewing 21st Century Patton: Strategic Insights for the Modern Era, Interview
Strategy Bridge, July 2017
Pearl Harbor: Into the Arizona, Featured Historian
ZDF Network, December 2016
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Episode 350: 21st Century Patton, Interview
Midrats Radio, September 2016
Review Essays
Through a Glass, Darkly: Strategic Perspective(s) for an Uncertain World
ORBIS, Volume 59, Issue 2, pp. 287-294, Spring 2015
Reassessing the Outbreak of the Great War and its Implications for International Politics
ORBIS, Volume 57, Issue 1, pp. 187-196, Winter 2013
Policy and Commentary Pieces
Churchill’s War on Lice: The Neglected Art of Caring for People
From the Green Notebook, 11 October 2020
What in Conservatism Should be Conserved? (with Martin Skold)
The Bulwark, 18 September 2020
What’s Left to Conserve? (with Martin Skold)
The Bulwark, 7 August 2020
What the “West Wing” Can Tell Us about the West Wing (with Paul Musgrave)
Washington Post, Monkey Cage, 22 January 2018
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Building a U.S. Army of 125,000 Spartans, Part II: Responding to My Critics
Real Clear Defense, 24 March 2014
Building a U.S. Army of 125,000 Spartans
Real Clear Defense, 6 March 2014
10 Good Reasons to Save the A-10
Real Clear Defense, 27 January 2014
Godspeed Liaoning!
Center for International Maritime Security, 24 January 2014
Book Reviews
Review – Just War and Ordered Liberty
Author: Paul Miller
Law and Liberty, November 2021
Review – Comprehensive Judgement and Absolute Selflessness: Winston Churchill on Politics as Friendship
Author: John von Heyking
Law and Liberty, October 2021
Review – The Art of War in the Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint
Author: Michael O’ Hanlon
Law and Liberty, September 2021
Review – The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775-1903
Author: Robert Wooster
Law and Liberty, June 2021
Review – Twilight Warriors: The Soldiers, Spies, and Special Agents Who Are Revolutionizing the American Way of War
Author: James Kitfield
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, May 2017
Review – The Secret War
Author: Max Hastings
The Washington Post, July 2016
Review – Front Burner: Al-Qaeda’s Attack on the USS Cole
Author: Commander Kirk S. Lippold USN (R)
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, March 2013
Review – Militarism in a Global Age: Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States Before World War I
Author: Dirk Bönker
Michigan War Studies Review, February 2013
Review – Find, Fix, Finish: Inside the Counterterrorism Campaigns that Killed Bin Laden and Devastated Al Qaeda
Author: Aki Peritz and Eric Rosenbach
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, January 2013
Review – The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran
Author: David Crist
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, November 2012
Review – Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA
Author: Joby Warrick
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, November 2011
Review – Counterinsurgency, by David Killcullen and Exporting Security: International Engagement, Security Cooperation, and the Changing Face of the U.S. Military
Author: Derek Reveron
The Guardian Anti-Terrorism Journal, p 29, Spring 2011