Notable publications U.S. National Security: Policymakers, Processes, and Politics, 4th Edition (coauthor, with Sam C Sarkesian and Stephen J Cimbala), Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Press, 2008, .
The Postmodern Military: Armed Forces After the Cold War (coeditor and contributor, with Charles C Moskos and David R Segal) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Soldiers, Society, and National Security (coauthor, with Sam C Sarkesian and Fred B Bryant) (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Press, 1995).
“The U.S. Military: Balancing Old and New Challenges,” National Strategy Forum Review (Winter, 2009), pp. 31–38.
“The Military and Society Beyond the Postmodern Era,” Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs 52, No. 2 (Spring 2008), pp. 199–216.
“Understanding Asymmetric Warfare: Threats and Responses,” National Strategy Forum Review (Summer 2007), pp.
23–26.
"The U.S. Naval Academy: Stewardship and Direction," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 123, No. 5 (May 1997), pp. 67–72.
"The New Military Professionals," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 122, No. 5 (May 1996), pp. 42–48.
“Civil-Military Relations and the American Way of War”, in Stephen J. Cimbala, ed., Civil-Military Relations in Perspective: Strategy, Structure and Policy (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, forthcoming 2011).
“Civil-Military Relations in the Second Bush Administration,” in Stephen J. Cimbala, ed., The George W. Bush Defense Program: Policy, Strategy, & War (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2010), pp.
101–111.
“Educating Military Officers for an Ambiguous Strategic Future,” Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, September 10, 2009.
“Anticipated and Unanticipated Consequences of the Creation of the All-Volunteer Force,” in The U.S. Citizen-Soldier at War: A Retrospective Look and the Road Ahead (Chicago: McCormick Foundation, 2008).
“Political Science Perspectives on the Military and Civil-Military Relations,” in Giuseppe Caforio, ed., Social Sciences and the Military: An Interdisciplinary Overview (London and New York: Routledge, 2007).
“Do Military Policies on Gender and Sexuality Undermine Combat Effectiveness?” (with Laura L Miller), in Peter D. Feaver and Richard H. Kohn, eds., Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001), pp.