My research focuses the constitution, operation, and performance of military organizations.
My primary project in progress is a book-length study of the ways in which the organization of authority structures and communications networks facilitates or inhibits the generation of combat power in state-based militaries engaged in land warfare. The project combines research and insights from political science, organization theory, military history, geography, and other disciplines and draws extensively on primary source research to develop and test the theory in battles from the Russo-Japanese, Chinese Civil, and Korean Wars and other conflicts.
My primary project in progress is a book-length study of the ways in which the organization of authority structures and communications networks facilitates or inhibits the generation of combat power in state-based militaries engaged in land warfare. The project combines research and insights from political science, organization theory, military history, geography, and other disciplines and draws extensively on primary source research to develop and test the theory in battles from the Russo-Japanese, Chinese Civil, and Korean Wars and other conflicts.
Other projects in which I am currently engaged include an application of my command structure model of military capacity to the Afghan Taliban, a theoretical inquiry of various models of civil-military relations during unconventional conflicts, and an empirical investigation of the sources and effects of civilian intervention into military operations during war.
My other research interests include:
- International Relations Theory
- Strategic, Operational, and Tactical Force Employment
- Civil-Military Relations
- United States Grand Strategy and Foreign Policy
- Counterinsurgency and Unconventional Warfighting
- Military Organizational Sociology
- Non-linearity in War