Books:

 

Understanding Battlefield Coalitions, London and New York: Routledge, 2023. (ed., with Rosella Cappella Zielinski) purchase.

 

Commanding Military Power: Organizing for Victory and Defeat on the Battlefield, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. purchase.

 

Articles:

 

"Why Do Militaries Fight Battles Together?" Security Studies, forthcoming. (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski)

 

"The Democratic Embargo: Regime Type and Proxy War," European Journal of International Relations 28, no. 2 (April, 2022): 444-470. (with Dominic Tierney) paper. appendix. data.

 

"Understanding Battlefield Coalitions," Journal of Strategic Studies 45, no. 2 (2022): 177-185. (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski) paper.

 

"A Century of Coalitions in Battle: Incidence, Composition, and Performance, 1900-2003," Journal of Strategic Studies 45, no. 2 (2022): 186-210. (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski) paper. appendix. codebook. data.

 

"Initiative and Military Effectiveness: Evidence from the Yom Kippur War," Journal of Global Security Studies 6, no. 2 (2021). (with Stephen Quackenbush) paper.

 

"Organizing for Performance: Coalition Effectiveness on the Battlefield," European Journal of International Relations 26, no. 4 (2020). (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski) paper.appendices. data.

 

"The Arsenal of Insurrection: Explaining Rising External Support for Rebels," Security Studies 27, no. 2 (2018): 263-295. (with Dominic Tierney) paper.

 

"Uncertain Victory: Information Management and Military Power," Journal of Global Security Studies 2, no. 1 (2017): 18-38. paper.

 

"Moderating Diffusion: Military Bureaucratic Politics and the Implementation of German Doctrine in South America, 1885-1914," World Politics 67, no. 2 (2015): 268-312. paper.

 

"Why Do Soldiers Give Up? A Self-Preservation Theory of Surrender," Security Studies 23, no. 3 (2014): 622-655.  paper. data.

 

“What Determines Military Victory? Testing the Modern System,” Security Studies 21, no. 1 (2012): 83-112. (with  Michael C. Horowitz)  paper. appendices. data.

 

Book Chapters:

 

“The Logistical Underpinnings of Combined Operations: Lessons from Burma,” in Evolution on Demand: The Changing Roles of the US Marine Corps in Twenty-First Century Conflicts, ed. Joanna Siekiera, Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Press, 2025. (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski) paper.

 

"Regime Type, War Aims, and Coalition Member Effort, in Understanding Battlefield Coalitions, eds. Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Ryan Grauer, New York: Routledge, forthcoming. (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Alastair Smith)  purchase.

 

"Technology and War," in Strategy in the Contemporary World, 7th ed., eds. John Bayliss, James J. Wirtz, and Jeannie L. Johnson, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2022): 125-144. purchase.

 

"Conventional Interstate War," in The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces, eds. Hugo Meijer and Martin Wyss, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018): 461-475.  purchase.

“Supplying and Sustaining Security Assistance in Wartime: Contested Logistics in the Indo-Pacific and Fighting with Allies and Partners,” prepared for the Gates Forum, William & Mary College, 2025 (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski). paper available upon request.

Introduction to roundtable on Tanisha M. Fazal, Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024). Introduction as part of a roundtable in H-Diplo, Vol. XVI, no. 41 (2025). paper.

 

Review of Mara Karlin, The Inheritance: America’s Military after Two Decades of War (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2021). Reviewed as part of a roundtable in Texas National Security Review, 30 May 2024. paper.

 

Review of Andrea Bartoletti, Escaping the Deadly Embrace: How Encirclement Causes Major Wars (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022). H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, July 2023. paper.

 

"Dataset Building by Qualitative Scholars," International History and Politics Section Newsletter 8, no. 2 (Fall, 2022): 8-10. (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski) paper.

 

"Practice Makes Perfect for Battlefield Coalitions," Military Strategy Magazine 8, no. 1 (Summer, 2022): 28-34. (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski)  paper.

 

Review of Lindsey O'Rourke, Covert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018). Reviewed as part of a roundtable in H-Diplo, Vol. XIII, no. 3 (2021). paper.

 

Introduction to roundtable on Jon R. Lindsay, Information Technology & Military Power (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020). Introduction as part of a roundtable in H-Diplo, Vol. XII, no. 9 (2021). paper.

 

"The Austin 'problematique'," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 17 December 2020. paper.

 

Review of the Special Issue, "Emerging Technologies and Strategic Stability," edited by Todd Sechser, Neil Narang, and Caitlin Talmadge, Journal of Strategic Studies 42, no. 6 (2019). Reviewed for H-Diplo, ISSF Article Review no. 137 (2020). paper.

 

Review of M. Taylor Fravel, Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019). Reviewed as part of a roundtable in H-Diplo, Vol. XI, no. 12 (2020). (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski) paper.

 

Review of Caitlin Talmadge, The Dictator’s Army: Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015). Reviewed as part of a roundtable in H-Diplo, Vol. VIII, no. 17 (2016). paper.

 

Review of Antulio J. Echevarria II, Reconsidering the American Way of War: U.S. Military Practice from the Revolution to Afghanistan (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014), in Political Science Quarterly 130, no. 4 (2015-2016): 806-807. paper.

 

“Old Wine in New Bottles: The Nature of Conflict in the 21st Century,” The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations 14, no. 1 (2013): 9-23. paper.