ESSAYS
2024. “Preparing the U.S. Cyber Force for Extended Conflict,” with Jay Vogt and Dan Grobarcik, Proceedings 150(6): 24–29.
Second Prize Winner of the Naval Institute's 2023 Information Warfare Essay Contest
2015. “Institutional Path Dependence in Korean Trade Liberalization,” in U.S.-Korea Yearbook 2014, 45–62. Washington, DC: U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS.
2014. “New rules for China’s war on terror?” East Asia Forum, October 25.
2014. “Conceptualizing Chinese Continentalism,” China in Central Asia, August 29.
2014. “Illegal Uighur Immigration in Southeast Asia,” cogitAsia, April 24.
2014. “Beijing Finds Neither ‘Iron-Fisted Rule’ Nor Development Bring Order to Xinjiang,” World Politics Review, March 28.
2014. “China’s Wild West: The Problem with Beijing’s Xinjiang Policy,” Foreign Affairs (online), January 26.
2013. “How China Develops Its Counterterrorism Capability,” The Diplomat, November 11.
2013. “Sino-American Cooperation in the Middle East,” China Policy Institute, October 2.
2013. “Insecurity Drives China’s Syria Policy,” The Diplomat, September 9.
2013. “Missed Opportunities Along the Silk Road: China and Russia Neglected,” Registan, August 5.
2011. “Energy Security in Afghanistan: The Energy Sector and its Importance for Stability,” Journal of International Peace Operations 7: 36–37.
REVIEWS
2027. “Jervis Forum Roundtable on Odd Arne Westad, The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from History,” H-Diplo, forthcoming.
2026. “Innovation and Adaptation in War by Matthew A. Tattar,” Journal of Military History 90(1): 216–218.
2023. “Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars by Vincent P. O’Hara and Leonard R. Heinz,” War in History 30(3): 339–340.
MEDIA APPEARANCES*
Controversy & Clarity podcast, episode 18, “Kendrick Kuo”
Rudy Weisz, “Ukraine Doesn’t Need U.S. Contractors,” War on the Rocks, July 3, 2023.
Jerry McAbee and Mike Hayes, “Marine Generals: ‘Trust But Verify’ Force Design 2030,” The National Interest, March 26, 2023.
Michael P. Ferguson, “Why modern wars cannot escape the trenches,” The Hill, December 8, 2022.
Michael Kaplan, "China's Uighurs look towards Turkey for help," Al Jazeera, March 7, 2015.
Kathleen Caulderwood, “China and Afghanistan’s Minerals,” International Business Times, August 25, 2014.
Kyle Lawrence Mullen, “Divides deepen as China allows anti-Uyghur sentiment to fester,” Asian Correspondent, May 8, 2014.
* Published quotes do not equate endorsement of the author’s perspectives.