Faculty Publications

2013

“From Doctrine to District: Governance, Development and the Challenges of Counterinsurgency at the Local Level”
David A. Ucko, Contemporary Security Policy (under review)

“The Five Myths of Clear-Hold-Build”
David A. Ucko, RUSI Journal (under review)

“Counterinsurgency in El Salvador”
David A. Ucko, Small Wars and Insurgencies (forthcoming 2013).

Counterinsurgency In Crisis: Britain and the Challenges of Modern Warfare
David A. Ucko and Robert Egnell (Columbia UP, 2013)

"Will Democracy be Derailed in Pakistan?"
Hassan Abbas, CNN Online, January 15, 2013

"After 2014: The U.S. in Afghanistan After Transition"
Paul Miller, Survival, Vol. 55, Issue 1, 2013, pg. 87-101.

"Afghanistan, Justice, and War"
Paul Miller, First Things, February 2013, No.230, pg. 39-44.

"International Relations: Brazil"
Thomaz Costa, Handbook of Latin American Studies, Social Sciences, Vol. 67. Edited by Tracy North and Katherinne McCann.

“Changing Strategy Amidst the Struggle: Colombian Civilian-Military Approach Proves More Effective Than Traditional Security Alone”
Carlos Ospina w/Thomas A. Marks, xxx (Washington, DC: Center for Complex Operations, National Defense University Press, 2012), xx-yy. In press.

“The Colombian Case of the Struggle Against the FARC as Demonstrating the Strength of the Whole-of-Government Approach in Counterinsurgency”
Carlos Ospina w/Thomas A. Marks, xxx (Washington, DC:  Center for Complex Operations, National Defense University Press, 2012), xx-yy. In press.

2012

"Understanding 'War and Peace' In Afghanistan Today: Will Planned Military Withdrawal Usher Peace in Afghanistan?"
Hassan Abbas, World Peace Foundation, December 3, 2012.

"Five Pillars of U.S. Grand Strategy"
Paul Miller, Survival, Vol. 54, Issue 5, October/November 2012, pg. 7-44.

"How to Exercise U.S. Leverage Over Pakistan"
Paul Miller, The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 35, Issue 4, Fall 2012, pg. 37-52.

"Stabilizing Pakistan through Police Reform"
Hassan Abbas, Asia Society Independent Commission on Pakistan Police Reform, New York, July 2012.

"The Fading Arab Oil Empire"
Paul Miller, National Interest, No. 120, July/August 2012, pg. 38-43.

"Be Afraid: Why the World is More Dangerous Than You Think"
Paul Miller, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 91, No. 4, July/August 2012, pg. 146-149.

"Are Drone Strikes killing Terrorists or Creating Them?"
Hassan Abbas, The Atlantic, March 31, 2012.

"Russia, China, and Stabilizing South Asia"
Geoffrey F. Gresh, Foreign Policy, March 12, 2012.

"COIN and FID in Colombia"
Thomas A. Marks, Small Wars Journal, 5 January 2012.

"Book Review: Taliban and Anti-Taliban"
Thomas A. Marks, Small Wars and Insurgencies [London], 23/3 (Aug 2012), 579-81.

"Whither Counterinsurgency: The Rise and Fall of a Divisive Concept"
David A. Ucko in Paul Rich and Isabelle Duyvesteyn (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency (Routledge, 2012).

"A New Strategic Architecture for the Pacific"
Ambassador C. Steven McGann and Mr. Richard K. Pruett, Pacific Islands Brief, December 13, 2012.

2011

"Guerrilla Insurgencies in Latin America"
David Scott Palmer with Thomas A. Marks, Oxford Bibliographies Online; 29 November 2011.

"How Obama Can Fix U.S.-Pakistani Relations"
Hassan Abbas, "Helping Islamabad Through The Democratic Transition" Foreign Affairs, December 21, 2011.

"China's Emerging Twin Pillar Policy in the Gulf"
Geoffrey F. Gresh, Foreign Policy, November 7, 2011.

"Counterinsurgency after Afghanistan: A Concept in Crisis"
David A. Ucko, Prism, 3:1 (December 2011)

"Nepal: Culture and New War"
Thomas A. Marks, Counterterrorism: The Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International [Arlington], 17/2 (Summer 2011), 34-37, 48-52.

"Foreword" to Gregor Mathias, Galula in Algeria: Counterinsurgency Practice versus Theory
David A. Ucko, (Praeger, 2011).

From Insurgency to Stability Volume II: Insights from Selected Case Studies
David A. Ucko and A. Rabasa, et al., Rand Corporation, 2011.

An Actor-centric Theory of War: Understanding the Difference Between COIN and Counterinsurgency" 
Sebastian L. Gorka and David Kilcullen, Joint Forces Quarterly, Issue 60, January, 2011.

Implementing Revolutionary Organizational Change in the U.S. Army: Putting the Army’s 2008 Operations Manual into Practice
David A. Ucko and D. Eaton, et al. Rand Corporation, 2011. [classified: for official use only]

"For Nepal’s Maoists, the Cold War Continues"
Thomas A. Marks, World Politics Review, 22 February 2011, 1-9.

Where Did the CPT Go? The Communist Party of Thailand: Form Over Substance
Saiyud Kerdpol w/Thomas A. Marks, (Bangkok: S. Research, 2011).

2010

"Peacebuilding After Afghanistan: Between Promise and Peril"
David A. Ucko, Contemporary Security Policy, 31:3 (2010).

"NATO, Terrorism and Irregular Threats"
Sebastian Gorka and Julian Lindley-French, "NATO, Terrorism, and Irregular Threats," Issue Brief, Atlantic Council (June, 2010).

"The Age of Irregular Warfare: So What?"
Sebastian Gorka, "The Age of Irregular Warfare: So What?" Joint Forces Quarterly, Issue 58, 3rd Quarter, 2010.

"Maoists and Moral Equivalence"
Thomas A. Marks, Republica [Kathmandu], 28 April 2010, 4.

"Getting the Next War Right: Beyond-Population-centric Warfare"
Thomas A. Marks, Sebastian Gorka, Robert Sharp, "Getting the Next War Right: Beyond Population-centric Warfare"  Prism, Volume 1, 3.  (May, 2010).

"Regaining the Initiative: Colombia Versus the FARC Insurgency"
Thomas A. Marks, Ch. 11 in Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian, eds., Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare, 2nd ed. (NY: Osprey, 2010), 209-32.

"Lawfare's Role in Irregular Conflict"
Thomas A. Marks, "Lawfare's Role in Irregular Conflict" in FOCUS Quarterly, Volume 4, Issue 2, Summer 2010.

"Colombia: Learning Institutions Enable Integrated Response"
Thomas A. Marks, "Colombia: Learning Institutions Enable Integrated Response", Prism, Volume 1, Issue 4, September 2010.

Hawaiian Pineapple Entrepreneurs, 1894-2007
Jack L. Larsen w/Thomas A. Marks, (Carmel, CA: Jennifer Morrow), 2010.