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Books
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Mud, Blood, and Oil Paint: The Remarkable Year that Made Winston Churchill
University Press of Kentucky, Forthcoming Spring 2024
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Patton: Battling with History
The University of Missouri Press, April 2020
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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
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21ST Century Patton: Strategic Insights for the Modern Era
Annapolis, MD: US Naval Institute Press, 2016
Journal Articles
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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
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Symposium on Synthetic Experiences: How Popular Culture Matters for Images of International Relations (with Paul Musgrave)
International Studies Quarterly, March 2019
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Synthetic Experiences: How Popular Culture Matters for Images of International Relations (with Paul Musgrave)
International Studies Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, December 2017
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The Imitation Game: Why Don’t Rising Powers Innovate Their Militaries More? (with Yu-Ming Liou and Paul Musgrave)
Washington Quarterly, Fall 2015
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Burke and Clausewitz on the Limitation of War (with Brian Smith)
Journal of International Political Theory, October 2015
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Patton as a Counterinsurgent?: Lessons from an Unlikely COIN-danista
Small Wars Journal, Volume 10, Number 1, January 2014
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Statesmanship and the Problem of Theoretical Generalization (with Brian Smith)
Polity, Volume 42, Number 2, April 2010
Media Appearances
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George S. Patton: A Complicated, Gifted, but Egotistical General, Interview
Constant Wonder, Episode 952, April 2021
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Studying Patton, Interview
Law and Liberty Podcast, January 2022
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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
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All Quiet on the Dunkirk Front, Interview
Small Wars Journal, September 2017
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Reviewing 21st Century Patton: Strategic Insights for the Modern Era, Interview
Strategy Bridge, July 2017
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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
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Through a Glass, Darkly: Strategic Perspective(s) for an Uncertain World
ORBIS, Volume 59, Issue 2, pp. 287-294, Spring 2015
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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
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Churchill’s War on Lice: The Neglected Art of Caring for People
From the Green Notebook, 11 October 2020
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What in Conservatism Should be Conserved? (with Martin Skold)
The Bulwark, 18 September 2020
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What’s Left to Conserve? (with Martin Skold)
The Bulwark, 7 August 2020
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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
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Building a U.S. Army of 125,000 Spartans
Real Clear Defense, 6 March 2014
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10 Good Reasons to Save the A-10
Real Clear Defense, 27 January 2014
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Godspeed Liaoning!
Center for International Maritime Security, 24 January 2014
Book Reviews
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Review – Just War and Ordered Liberty
Author: Paul Miller
Law and Liberty, November 2021
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Review – Comprehensive Judgement and Absolute Selflessness: Winston Churchill on Politics as Friendship
Author: John von Heyking
Law and Liberty, October 2021
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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
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Review – The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775-1903
Author: Robert Wooster
Law and Liberty, June 2021
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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
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Review – The Secret War
Author: Max Hastings
The Washington Post, July 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Review – Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA
Author: Joby Warrick
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, November 2011
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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