Public Scholarship
“Deterring a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan,” (contributing author), Inkstick, February 12, 2024.
“A New Approach to Defending the United States?” (contributing author), Inkstick, December 21, 2022.
Podcast guest (with Amb. Dennis Ross), “Transmitting Values: Can US Security Force Assistance Export Democratic Norms?” Irregular Warfare Podcast, December 2, 2022.
“Rethinking How the United States Trains Foreign Militaries,” Lawfare, August 14, 2022.
“Learning the Wrong Lessons: The Blind Spots in the US Approach to Foreign Military Training,” Irregular Warfare Initiative, June 16, 2022.
Panel discussion, “The Future of US Security Force Assistance,” Irregular Warfare Initiative and West Point International Affairs Forum Event Panel, November 9, 2021.
“All About Access: Solving America’s Force Posture Puzzle,” with Becca Wasser, The Washington Quarterly 44:3 (2021), 45-67.
“Access Denied? The Future of U.S. Basing in a Contested World,” with Brian Blankenship, War on the Rocks, February 1, 2021.
“Does the Pentagon's Checkbook Diplomacy Actually Work?” with Brian Blankenship, Defense One, June 23, 2020.
“‘Money as a Weapons System’: The Promises and Pitfalls of Foreign Defense Contracting,” with Brian Blankenship (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2020).
Follow the Money: Promoting Greater Transparency in Department of Defense Security Cooperation Reporting, contributing author (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2017).
Defense Institution Building in Africa: An Assessment, contributing author (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2016).
“The Risks of U.S. Allies Going Rogue,” with Brian Blankenship, The National Interest (online), January 22, 2016.
“Djibouti's First, But Will It Last?” with Brian Blankenship, Lawfare, January 3, 2016.
“Unheeded Warning of War: Why Policymakers Ignored the 1990 Yugoslavia Estimate,” with Greg Treverton (Washington, DC: Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2015). Reprinted in Intelligence and National Security 32 (4): 506-522 (2017).
“Social Media and Intelligence,” with Greg Treverton, Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies (Swedish National Defence College, 2014).
“The (Many) Hurdles to U.S. Stabilization Operations,” Lawfare, February 2, 2014.
“How to Lead on Syria,” The National Interest (online), June 28, 2013.
“A Modest Post-Assad Plan,” with Daniel Byman, The National Interest (2012): 48-57.
“The State Department, USAID, and the Flawed Mandate for Stabilization and Reconstruction,” PRISM 3 (1): 37-46 (2011).