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National Security / Foreign Policy
The Sovereignty Solution: A Commonsense Approach to Global Security
21st Century Cultures of War: Advantage Them
Got Vision? Unity of Vision in Policy and Strategy, What It Is and Why We Need It
The Military and Society: A Refresher
Finessing primacy – some military considerations before subversion does us in (Part 1)
Finessing primacy – some military considerations before subversion does us in (Part 2)
How to Thwart Subversion and ‘Death by a Thousand Doubts
The Sovereignty Solution: Not Radical, But Measured
The ‘Beware: Poison’ Approach to Security
Soft War = Smart War? Think Again
Sovereignty – The Ultimate States’ Rights Argument
The Sovereignty Solution
The Misleading Problem of Failed States: a ‘socio-geography’ of terrorism in the post-9/11 era
Making Enemies: An Anthropology of Islamist Terror (Part I)
Making Enemies: An Anthropology of Islamist Terror (Part II)
SOF and the War on Terrorism
The Death of Conquest
Intervention in Failed States: What the U.S. Military Can and Can’t Do
Yes, Mr. President – Sovereignty!
Building to Strength
The Menace of Menace
Hope as a Moral Hazard
Why Our Syria Policy Is Still a Muddle
Special Operations Forces (SOF)
The Company They Keep: Life Inside the U.S. Army Special Forces
21st Century Challenges of Command: A View from the Field
Cynicism: a brief look at a troubling topic
The weight-training puzzle: six shooters, ‘six packs, or men with a sixth sense – what does SF need?
SOF & Diversity: Boon or Bane?
Scalpel’ or ‘Easy Button’? Neither – And Some Further Considerations
The Evolution of the SOF Soldier
Firewalling: Direct vs. Indirect Approach
Africa
Networks of Dissolution: Somalia Undone
The ACRI Command and Control Challenge
Hardly Innocent: Armed Humanitarian Intervention in Somalia
Somalia: The Structure of Dissolution
Somalia: A Regional Security Dilemma
The Beginning of the End
Somalia and the Dissolution of the Nation-State
Understanding the Somali Conflagration
Teaching
The company I kept: twenty years at the Naval Postgraduate School
Teaching for Andy Marshall
How Critical Should Critical Thinking Be? Teaching Soldiers in Wartime
Military Anthropology
Non-Western Threats and the Social Sciences
Crooked Lessons from the Indian Wars
Asymmetries, Anthropology, and War
Anthropology, Culture, and COIN in a Hybrid Warfare World
Seeing the Enemy (or Not)
The Military Advisor as Warrior-King and Other ‘Going Native’ Temptations
The Backbone or the Box? The Choice between Principled and Prescriptive Leadership
The Women in Combat Debate
Women Can Never 'Belong' in Combat
War: Back to the Future
How Ambiguity Results in Excellence: The Role of Hierarchy and Reputation in U.S. Army Special Forces
How Tactics Used in Iraq and Afghanistan Can Make the U.S. More Vulnerable in Future Wars
Political Anthropology
Getting Tribes: A Corrective
Purity is Danger: An Argument for Divisible Identities
Making Sense of Ethnic Cleansing
Thicker than Water? Kin, Religion, and Conflict in the Balkans
Democratisation and Ethnic Conflict: The Kin Connection
Anthropology
Government
Political Anthropology