Select Publications
Books
2024, The Art of War and Peace: Understanding Our Choices in a World at War, Penguin Random House, Cape Town, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za/book/art-war-and-peace-understanding-our-choices-world-war/9781776391851
,2021, The Ledger Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan
,2020, The Dragons and the Snakes How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, Oxford University Press, USA
,2016, A Great Perhaps? Colombia: Conflict and Divergence, Hurst
,2016, Blood Year The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism, Oxford University Press
,2015, Out of the Mountains The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla, Oxford University Press
,2015, Quarterly Essay 58: Blood Year Terror and the Islamic State, Black Inc.
,2014, Reconstructing Afghanistan: Civil-Military Experiences in Comparative Perspective, Maley W; Schmeidl S, (ed.), Routledge, London, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138810679/?utm_source=adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sbu1_lan_4mx_8cm_2sec_00000_hottopic_afghan
,2014, Mapping the Conflict in Aleppo, Syria
,2013, Somalia: Fixing Africa's Most Failed State, Tafelberg, Johannesburg, http://www.tafelberg.com/Books/15644
,2010, Counterinsurgency, Oxford University Press
,2009, The Accidental Guerrilla Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One, Oxford University Press
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