Current Projects
James Gavin’s Cold War [Under agreement with University Press of Kentucky] Learn more here
Chasing Lethality: The U.S. Army’s Pursuit of Combat Power from World War I to the Present (Army University Press) [In development]
The Rock and a Hard Place: 2-503rd Infantry in Afghanistan, 2007-2008. Learn more here
Books
The Pentomic Army: The US Army and the Nuclear Battlefield in the 1950s-60s (Helion Press, 2026) [Forthcoming May 15, 2026] Learn more here
The Airborne Mafia: The Paratroopers Who Shaped America’s Cold War Army (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2025) Learn more here
Peer Reviewed
“George Washington and the Origins of Civilian Control in the United States Military,” Military Review (July-August 2025): 73–86.
“Integrating Army Capabilities into Deterrence: The Early Cold War,” The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters vol. 53, issue 4 (Winter 2023–24): 69–82,
“”Our Problem Children”: Masculinity and its Discontents in American Parachute Units in World War II,” Journal of Military History, vol 87 (July 2023): 657–702.
“All Blood Runs Red: Triple Nickle Paratroopers Jump Start Integration,” Proceedings of the Ohio Academy of History Annual Meetings 2020-2022, October 2022.
“STRAC: U.S. Army Strategic Response Forces and Maintaining Relevance in the Atomic Age” On Point: The Journal of Army History vol. 27 no. 3 (Spring 2022): 35–44
“The Development of Airfield Seizure Operations in the United States Army,” Military Review Online Exclusive, November 18, 2021.
“Focus on Failure: The Failure of Che Guevara’s Foquismo.” The Internationalist: Undergraduate Journal of Foreign Affairs. Volume III (April 2019): 44-55.
Articles
“Tuition Assistance is Necessary for Well-Rounded Education,” NCO Journal, May 23, 2025.
“It’s Time to Ditch Huntington,” Small Wars Journal, February 6, 2025.
with Carson Teuscher, “Torch: The Allied Invasion of French North Africa, 1942.” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, September 29, 2022.
“British Strategy in the First Anglo-Afghan War, 1838–1842,” Military History Online, August 16, 2022.
“Bring Back The Sightseeing Sixth: The Case For An Arctic Division,” Modern War Institute (December 14, 2021)
“Gavin, ‘Triple Nickles’ at Forefront of Army Integration,” ARMY Magazine vol. 71, no. 11 (November 2021): 14–15.
“The Warrior Problem and the American Veteran,” Stars and Stripes (July 2, 2021)
“Renaming Southern Army Bases is Nothing New,” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective (January 18, 2021)
“The “Triple Nickles”: Jim Crow Was an Elite Black Airborne Battalion’s Toughest Foe.” History News Network (September 6, 2020)
“Using Grief to Bridge The Civilian-Military Divide” VFW Magazine (May 2020): 20–21.
“Camas Coach’s Lessons Help Soldier Face Adversity in Combat Zone, Life” Camas-Washougal Post Record (January 30, 2020)
“Presidential Pardons Send the Wrong Message” Columbus Dispatch (December 31, 2019)
Book Reviews
Review of Seth Harp, The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces (Viking, 2025), Military Review, January–February 2026.
Review of Brooke King, War Flower: My Life after Iraq (Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2019), Marine Corps History 8, No. 1(Summer 2022): 78–79.
Review of Werner T. Angress, Witness to the Storm: A Jewish Journey from Nazi Berlin to the 82nd Airborne, 1920–1945 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019), H-War, H-Net Reviews. February 2021.
Review of Patrick K. O’Donnell, First SEALs: The Untold Story of the Forging of America’s Most Elite Unit (Boston: De Capo Press, 2014), H-War, H-Net Reviews. July 2020.
Review of Giles Milton, Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill of Die (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2018). Journal of Military History, Vol. 84, No. 2, 639–640.
Review of Joel Bius, Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em: The Rise and Fall of the Military Cigarette Ration (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2018). On Point: The Journal of Army History 25.2 (Fall 2019), 60.
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