Select Recent Publications
Tribal Warfare in Iraq, in
Armed Groups, ed. Jeffery Norwich, Newport, RI: Naval Institute Press, 2008.
Cultural Knowledge and Common Sense: Response to Roberto Gonzalez (with Steve Fondacaro),
Anthropology Today,Volume 24, No. 1, February 2008.
Mercenaries, New Encyclopedia of Africa, 2nd edition, New York: Charles Scriber’s Sons, 2007.
Role and Effectiveness of Socio-cultural Knowledge for Counterinsurgency,
Alexandria, VA: Institute for Defense Analysis, July 2007; limited distribution.
Building Bridges or Burning Heretics? A Response to Roberto Gonzalez,
Anthropology Today,Volume 22, June 2007.
Iraq Tribal Study Al-Anbar Governorate: The Albu Fahd Tribe, The Albu Mahal Tribe and the Albu Issa Tribe
(with Lin Todd, W. Patrick Lang, Jr., R. Alan King, Andrea V. Jackson, Ahmed S. Hashim, PhD, Jeremy S. Harrington), 2006.
Available at: http://turcopolier.typepad.com/the_athenaeum/files/iraq_tribal_study_070907.pdf
Chapter Three: Intelligence (co-authored), US Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual FM 3-24,
2006.
Cultural Intelligence: “Far More Difficult than Counting Tanks and Planes,” American Intelligence Journal,
Summer 2006, pp. 16-26.
The Object Beyond War: Counterinsurgency and the Tools of Political Competition (with Andrea Jackson),
Military Review, January-February, 2006, pp. 13-26.
‘A Failure of Imagination’: Cultural Knowledge and Intelligence, in Angela Sapp, ed.,
The Faces of Intelligence Reform: Perspectives on Direction and Form, Washington, DC: CENSA, 2005.
An Organizational Solution for DOD's Cultural Knowledge Needs (with Andrea Jackson),
Military Review, July-August, 2005, pp. 18-21.
Does Culture Matter? The Military Utility of Cultural Knowledge,
Joint Forces Quarterly, 38, 2005, pp. 42-48.
The Social Context of IEDs in Iraq,
Military Review, May/June 2005, pp. 37-40.
Anthropology and Counterinsurgency: The Strange Story of their Curious Relationship,
Military Review, March/April 2005, pp. 24-38.
Reprinted: Joint Center for Operational Analysis (JCOA) Bulletin,
Vol. III, no. 3, September 2006, pp. 60-77.
Reprinted: Annual Editions: Anthropology
07/08, Thirtieth Edition, Elvio
Angeloni, ed., McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Reprinted: Counterinsurgency Reader, Combined Arms Center: Ft.
Leavenworth, KS, 2006.
North Korean Culture and Society, PM-1648-USCA, Washington, DC: RAND Corporation, 2004.
Reprinted as: Understanding North Korean Culture and Society, Intellipedia,
2007.
Entries on Human Intelligence; Turkey; Iran; Libya; Egypt; Algeria; Yemen;
Sudan; Philip Agee and Afghanistan, in The Encyclopedia of Intelligence
and Counterintelligence. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 2004.
The Impact of Republican Culture on the Ceasefire, Journal of Conflict Studies.
vol. 20, No. 2, 2001, pp. 46-72.
Ceasefire: The Impact of Republican Political Culture on the Ceasefire Process in Northern Ireland, Peace and Conflict Studies,
vol. 7, No. 1, 2000, pp. 21-47.
Have Rifle With Scope, Will Travel: The Global Economy of Mercenary Violence, California Western International Law Journal,
vol. 30, No. 1, 1999, p. 1-43.
Haunting Memories: Flossenburg Reminds Us of Atrocities, Stars and Stripes European Edition
Sept. 14, 1999, p. 2-5.