Journal Articles
2013
‘Counterinsurgency in El Salvador: The Lessons and Limits of the Indirect Approach’, Small Wars and Insurgencies, 24:4 (2013).
‘The Five Fallacies of Clear-Hold-Build: Counter-insurgency, Governance and Development at the Local Level’, RUSI Journal, 158:3 (2013).
2011
‘Counterinsurgency After Afghanistan: A Concept in Crisis‘, PRISM, 3:1 (December 2011)
‘Counterinsurgency and its Discontents: Assessing the Value of a Divisive Concept‘, SWP Research Paper, 6, (April 2011).
2010
‘Peacebuilding After Afghanistan: Between Promise and Peril’, Contemporary Security Policy, 31:3 (2010) – nominated for the 2010 Bernard Brodie Prize, awarded to the outstanding article of the year
‘Lessons from Basra: The Future of British Counter-insurgency’, Survival, 52:4 (2010).
‘The Malayan Emergency: The Legacy and Relevance of a Counterinsurgency Success-Story’, Defence Studies, 10:1-2 (2010).
‘Les dilemmes de la doctrine de contre-insurrection américaine : répétition, pertinence et effet’, Sécurité Globale, 10 (Hiver 2010).
2009
‘NATO at 60′, Mats Berdal & David Ucko, Survival, 51:2 (2009).
2008
‘Militias, Tribes and Insurgents: The Challenge of Political Reintegration in Iraq‘, Conflict, Security & Development, 8:3 (October 2008).
‘Innovation or Inertia: The U.S. Military and the Learning of Counterinsurgency’, Orbis, 52:2 (Spring 2008).
2007
‘Countering Insurgents Through Distributed Operations: Insights from Malaya 1948-1960′, Journal of Strategic Studies, 30:1 (2007) – winner of the 2007 Amos Perlmutter Prize, awarded to the most outstanding article written that year by a junior faculty member.
2005
‘US Counterinsurgency in the Information Age’, Jane’s Intelligence Review, 17:10 (December 2005).
