My Research
Research areas & Current Projects
Future Force Planning
How do militaries identify and develop the future concepts, capabilities, and organizations needed to succeed in peacetime competition and wartime engagement?
Defense
Strategy
How does the United States develop, resource, and maintain a successful strategy for long-term competition with its great power rivals?
Military Innovation
What makes a military better at identifying the need to innovate? How have militaries historically responded to international security uncertainty?
Regional
Security
To what extent do America's major regional security partners exercise strategic and doctrinal autonomy in the Indo-Pacific region?
Book Project
"The Doctrine Gap: Balancing National Security Commitments and Capabilities"
WORKING PAPERS
“The Merits of Control: Optimizing Military Innovation in the Cold War US Army,” (UNDER REVIEW)
Presented at the 2024 America in the World Consortium conference on "Who Shall Lead? America’s Past, Present, and Future Engagement in the World."
"Force Planning and Commitment-Capability Gaps: Comparing Army and Marine Corps Responses to the Carter Doctrine and the Return to Great Power Competition"
Presented at the 2024 United States Military Academy conference on “States, Societies, and Security in the 21st Century.”
Presented at the 2023 Peace Science Society International conference workshop on “New Avenues in Research on Force Planning.”
Datasets
“Foreign Travels of the Secretaries of Defense, 1948-2019,” Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2020.