Books

Of Scandal and Power: A History of the Iran-Contra Affair (Forthcoming, 2026)

History & World Order, Editor (Forthcoming, 2026)

Essays and Reports

Americas First: Reorienting US Foreign Policy, Hoover Institution Press, October 2024.

Testimony

Written Statement, Advancing American Interests in the Western Hemisphere, Hearing before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, March 5, 2025.

Articles

“First the Americas, Then the World,” RealClearDefense, March 13, 2025.

“Trump’s Americas Doctrine Starts at the Canal,” Defining Ideas, February 12, 2025.

“Caribbean Catastrophe: Avoiding the Haiti Fallout,” Defining Ideas, January 23, 2025.

On “The Manner In Which American Democracy Conducts Foreign Affairs” in The Genius of America – A Journey Into Our Republic: A Study on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy In America, Constituting America, December 12, 2024.

“America Must Put the ‘Americas First’,” Defining Ideas, December 9, 2024.

“Vexed by Venezuela: The Maduro Problem,” Defining Ideas, November 13, 2024.

“Foreign Policy Starts in Your Own Neighborhood.” RealClearDefense, May 1, 2024.

“Whither the Monroe Doctrine?,” The National Interest, March 18, 2024.

“Be Skeptical of Reagan’s ‘October Surprise’,” War on the Rocks, April 10, 2023. Co-authored with William Inboden.

Reviews

Review of Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition, by Christian Nikolaus Braun, Defense & Security Analysis 40, No. 1 (2024): 162-164.

“Peace Through Strength and Strategy,” in Roundtable Review of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink, by William Inboden, Not Even Past, May 3, 2023.

“Sex, Drugs, and Mind Control,” International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 35, No. 1 (Spring 2022): 173-178.

Review of Cowboy Presidents: The Frontier Myth and U.S. Politics since 1900, by David A. Smith, South Dakota History 51, No. 4 (Winter 2021): 388-389.

Review of Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present, by Donald Stoker, H-War, H-Net Reviews, August 2020.

Review of The Mayaguez Crisis, Mission Command, and Civil-Military Relations, by Christopher J. Lamb, Journal of Military History 84, No. 2 (April 2020): 652-653.