Force Design and International Politics

“So What? Re-Assessing the Military Implications of Chinese Control of Taiwan,” Texas National Security Review, forthcoming. (please contact the author for a copy)

“AUKUS: When Naval Procurement Sets Grand Strategy,” International Journal, 78, no. 3 (September 2003), 327-334. (pdf)

“Horses, nails, and messages: Three defense industries of the Ukraine war,” Contemporary Security Policy, 44, no. 4, 606–623 (pdf).

“Too Important to Be Left to the Admirals: The Need to Study Maritime Great Power Competition,” with Peter J. Dombrowski, Security Studies, 29, no. 4 (August 2020)

“Cruising for a Bruising: Maritime Competition in an Anti-Access Age,” with Peter J. Dombrowski, Security Studies, 29, no. 4 (August 2020)

"Military Technology and the Duration of Civil Conflict," with Todd Sechser. International Studies Quarterly, 1, no. 3 (September 2017), pp. 704-720.

"Who's Arming Asia?" with Ethan Kapstein. Survival 58, no. 2 (April/May 2016) pp. 167-184

“United States Hegemony and the New Economics of Defense.”  Security Studies 16, no. 4 (October–December 2007), 597–613.  

Academic Writing

Policy Writing

“Tactical Fruit Flies and a Strategic Petri Dish: The Black Sea as Testing Ground for the Future of Maritime Conflict,” #GIDSstatement, German Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies, No. 6/2025, June 2025, with Michael B. Petersen (pdf)

“American Shipbuilding Needs Allies” Foreign Policy, May 12, 2025, with Rebecca Pincus (pdf)

“The Taiwan Fallacy: American Power Does Not Hinge on a Single Island,” Foreign Affairs, August 7, 2024. (pdf)

“A Man-of-War is the Best Ambassador: European Naval Deployments as Costly and Useful Diplomatic Signals,” Europe in the Indo-Pacific, Hague Center for Strategic Studies, eds. Paul van Hooft and Alessandra Barrow, May 2023

"German Conventional Deterrence or Allied Integrated Deterrence: Pick One," Lawfare, April 17, 2022 (with Lucas F. Hellemeier)

“Introduction: A Bumpy Road to Normalcy,” Policy Roundtable: The Future of Japanese Security and Defense, Texas National Security Review, Oct 1, 2020 (with Peter J. Dombrowski)

“F-35 Sales Are America’s Belt and Road,” Foreign Policy, July 13, 2019 (with Ethan B. Kapstein and Srdjan Vucetic)
 
"Sub-Optimal: The Pivot and Australia's New Fleet” Foreign Affairs, March 14, 2016

“Who’s Arming Asia?” Survival 58, no. 2 (April/May 2016) pp. 167-184