Now available! My new book aimed at helping readers navigate the aftermath of a failure experience and find new life on the other side.
“Even as we celebrate what we have achieved, applaud ourselves for daring greatly, and shrug off failure, we are dying inside. Because nobody has really, honestly told us what failure feels like, and the truth is, it is terrifying and it is lonely and it hurts like hell.”
Academic
“When War Is Not a Duel: The Three Body Game and the Scientific Way of Warfare”, forthcoming book chapter in The Three Body Problem and International Relations (2024)
“Two Birds With One Drone: Strengthening Taiwan’s Deterrence and Saving America’s Drone Industrial Base”, forthcoming book chapter, 2024
The Uses and Limits of Speculative Fiction: Three Novels about a US–China War, Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, 2023 (comparative analysis of Ghost Fleet, 2034, and White Sun War)
Book Review: The Rise and Fall of Imperial China by Yuhua Wang, Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, 2023
Stanford Dissertation: The Scramble for Political Order: State Breakdown and Armed Group Proliferation in Civil War, 2017
SAASS Thesis: Strategy in Fragmented Wars: Iraq, Syria, and the Challenge of Intervention, 2014
Articles and Blog Posts
Ukraine’s Drone Strikes are a Window into the Future of Warfare, The New Atlanticist, 2023
The Dubious Prospects for Cargo-Delivery Drones in Ukraine, War on the Rocks, 2022
Strategic Implications of Non-State #WarBots, The Strategy Bridge, 2017
The Promise of Drones, Harvard International Review, 2016
Why the Flying IED Threat Has Barely Started, War on the Rocks, 2016
#Monday Musings, The Strategy Bridge, 2016
How the Syria Airlift Project is Using Open Source Dronecode for Humanitarian Aid, linux.com, 2015
The Syria Airlift Project, US Naval Institute Proceedings, 2016
How to Discover Defense Innovation, War on the Rocks, 2014
Why the Defense Entrepreneurs Forum Matters: Peripheral Networks & Innovation, War on the Rocks, 2014
Constructive Disruption: The Defense Entrepreneurs Forum, Small Wars Journal, 2013
Finding Common Ground: Harnessing Disruption for the Good of the Service, Small Wars Journal, 2013
Some side benefits of learning both a foreign language and a foreign culture, Foreign Policy: The Best Defense, 2010