PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Forthcoming: “Putting the Civilian Back in Civil-Military Relations: How Civilian Threat Perception Conditions the Effects of Security Assistance,” International Studies Quarterly. With Renanah Joyce.
“Issue Linkage in Security Assistance: A Pathway to Security Sector Reform,” Journal of Strategic Studies, 47(3): 1-24. With Max Margulies.
“The Cult of the Persuasive: Why U.S. Security Assistance Fails,” International Security, 47(3): 95-135.
“The Case for Campaign Analysis: A Method for Studying Military Operations,” International Security, 45(4): 44-83. With Andrew Halterman.
Working Papers & Projects
“Contingency Access: The Overlooked Pillar of Military Cooperation” (draft article)
“Let them in?: How Peacetime Access and Security Interests Drive Access Decisions” (research project)
“Train the World: Examining the Illogic of US Foreign Military Training” (research project)
“Wargames to Game the System: How Defense Bureaucracies Weaponize Synthetic Data for Bureaucratic Advantage” (research project)
“Beyond Secure Second Strike: Overlooked Pathways to Nuclear Use” (draft paper)
Other Publications & Media (selected)
“Defending Taiwan: But…What Are the Costs?” The Washington Quarterly 46(4):65-81. With Erik Sand.
“Norm Diffusion through US Military Training: An Exchange,” Security Studies 31(3): 533-551.
Review of Erik Lin-Greenberg, Reid Pauly, and Jacqueline Schneider, “Wargaming for International Relations Research,” H-Diplo, April 14, 2022.
"Nuclear Risks: Russia’s Ukraine War Could End in Disaster,” National Interest, July 2022. With David Arcenaux.
“Prioritizing Security Cooperation with Highly Capable U.S. Allies,” RAND Corporation, 2022. Contributing Author.
“Why America Can’t Build Allied Armies,” Foreign Affairs, August 2021.
“The Taliban has seized more cities, despite U.S. efforts to build a strong Afghan military. What happened?” The Washington Post, August 2021.
“How the coronavirus will affect the U.S. military,” The Washington Post, March 19, 2020. With Erik Sand.
“Will to Fight: Returning to the Human Fundamentals of War,” RAND Corporation, 2019. Contributing Author.
“Podcast: The Future of Force,” War on the Rocks, June 4, 2018. With Alex Bick, Ryan Evans, Alice Friend, Kath Hicks, Ryan Evans, Sara Plana, and Usha Sahay.
“Targeted Killing: Thinking Through the Logic,” War on the Rocks, September 28, 2016.
photo: visit to Fort Irwin National Training Center