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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