2010s
2011:
- "For U.S., the Long War Shifts Backs to the Persian Gulf," World Politics Review (6 June).
- "According to New Pentagon Cyber Strategy, State-of-War Conditions Now Exist Between the US and China," Time's Battleland (1 June).
- "Why the U.S. Should 'Give' Af-Pak to China," World Politics Review (30 May).
- "CoreGap Bulletin 11.13," Wikistrat (26 May).
- "Army Not Lucky, Just Desperate to Avoid Leviathan Supremacy Over Next Decade," Time's Battleland (25 May).
- "Obama's Israel-Palestine Red Herring," World Politics Review (23 May).
- "Obama's Middle East Speech Text, Decoded Line-by-Line," Esquire's The Politics Blog (19 May).
- "If Issued, Libyan ICC Arrest Warrants Would Continue 'Perfect' Africa Record for Court," Time's Battleland (17 May).
- "Four Options for Redefining the Long War," World Politics Review (16 May).
- "CoreGap Bulletin 11.12," Wikistrat (12 May).
- "Pakistan: Indispensable to US Security?" Time's Battleland (12 May).
- "Counter-Terrorism Beats Nation-Building?" Time's Battleland (11 May).
- "For U.S., Abandoning the Middle East not a Solution," World Politics Review (9 May).
- "Right Out of John Boyd's Strategy: Disconnect, Isolate & Disempower Your Enemy," Time's Battleland (9 May).
- "A Provocative Vision of a Post-Supercarrier US Navy," Time's Battleland (6 May).
- "Life After the Bin Laden Kill: What Now?" Esquire's The Politics Blog (2 May).
- "Glass Half Full on Obama's New National Security Team," World Politics Review (2 May).
- "CoreGap Bulletin 11.11," Wikistrat (28 April).
- "Long-Term U.S. Presence in Afghanistan a Mistake," World Politics Review (25 April).
- "Strategic Balancing vs Global Development," World Politics Review (18 April).
- "CoreGap Bulletin 11.10," Wikistrat (14 April).
- "U.S. Global Role Depends on Hard Fiscal Choices," World Politics Review (11 April).
- "The State Strikes Back," World Politics Review (4 April).
- "The Anti-Conspiracist's Guide to Revolution in the Arab World," [held from publication due to fear of triggering censorship from UAE], Esquire Middle East (slated for April issue).
- "CoreGap Bulletin 11.09," Wikistrat (31 March).
- "Obama's Libya Speech, Decoded," Esquire's The Politics Blog (29 March).
- "Managing Global Supply Chains a Key U.S. Advantage," with Stephen F. DeAngelis, World Politics Review (28 March).
- "Demand as Power in a Resilient Global Order," World Politics Review (23 March).
- "Battle: The Real Obama Doctrine Emerges," Esquire's The Politics Blog (22 March).
- "Nuclear Deterrence Ain't Broke, So Don't Fix It," World Politics Review (21 March).
- "CoreGap Bulletin 11.08," Wikistrat (17 April).
- "Obama Abdicating U.S. Leadership in Libya," World Politics Review (14 March).
- "Battle: Libya? How the Pentagon Cured America's War Itch," Esquire's The Politics Blog (10 March).
- "Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads," World Politics Review (7 March).
- "America Need Not Fear Connectivity Revolutions," World Politics Review (28 February).
- "CoreGap Bulletin 11.07," Wikistrat (25 February).
- "Seven Reasons Why Qaddafi Would Be Best Domino Yet," Esquire's The Politics Blog (22 February).
- "U.S. Should Pursue 'Open Door," not Primacy," World Politics Review (21 February).
- "CoreGap Bulletin 11.06," Wikistrat (17 February).
- "Ten Assumptions About Egypt Worth Discarding," World Politics Review (14 February).
- "CoreGap Bulletin 11.05," Wikistrat (10 February).
- "Guiding Egypt into the Axis of Good," World Politics Review (7 February).
- "10 Lessons From the Revolution in Egypt . . . So Far," Esquire's The Politics Blog (31 January).
- "War-Gaming Egypt's Future," World Politics Review (31 January).
- "CoreGap Bulletin 11.04," Wikistrat (28 January).
- "The Battle for Islam's Soul," World Politics Review (24 January).
- "CoreGap Bulletin 11.03," Wikistrat (20 January).
- "Who Should Worry About the Tunisia Fallout, Really?" Esquire's The Politics Blog (19 January).
- "Why America Needs To Demonize China," World Politics Review (17 January).
- "CoreGap Bulletin 11.02," Wikistrat (14 January).
- "U.S. Defense Cuts a Step in the Right Direction," World Politics Review (10 January).
- "CoreGap Bulletin 11.01," Wikistrat (7 January).
- "A Wish List for the New Year," World Politics Review (3 January).
- "When China Ruled the World," Esquire (1 January).
2010:
- "China-US Grand Strategy Agreement Proposal," with John Milligan-Whyte and Dai Min, Center for America-China Partnership (30 December).
- "Obstacles to a U.S.-China Partnership Made in U.S.A.?" World Politics Review (20 December).
- "Obama's Afghanistan Review, Decoded," Esquire's The Politics Blog (17 December).
- "Qatar World Cup a Return on Investment," World Politics Review (13 December).
- "China, US as Strategic Collaborators," China Daily (10 December).
- "Globalization, Air Hubs and the City of Tomorrow," World Politics Review (6 December).
- "How the WikiLeaks Cables Reveal Obama's False Utopia," Esquire's The Politics Blog (30 November).
- "Setting the Terms for a U.S.-China Grand Bargain," World Politics Review (29 November)
- "5 Ways the U.S. Can Fend Off the Next Korean War," Esquire's The Politics Blog (23 November).
- "The End of the U.S. Security Backstop," World Politics Review (22 November).
- "America in Yemen: The Perfect War We've Been Waiting For?" Esquire's The Politics Blog (19 November).
- "Globalization's Massive Demographic Bet," World Politics Review (15 November).
- "Using China to Scare Ourselves Straight," World Politics Review (8 November).
- "5 Ways the New Congress Changes the Future of War," Esquire's The Politics Blog (3 November).
- "A Zero-Sum Future Doesn't Add Up," World Politics Review (1 November).
- "CoreGap Bulletin 10.01," Wikistrat (1 November).
- "The Two Chinas' Long Road to Common Ground," World Politics Review (25 October).
- "Big-War Thinking in a Small-War Era: The Rise of the AirSea Battle Concept," China Security (Issue 18).
- "The Problem with David Petraeus Talking to the Taliban," Esquire's The Politics Blog (21 October).
- "Nation-Building, Not Naval Threats, Key to South Asian Security," World Politics Review (18 October).
- "Defusing the Global Currency War," World Politics Review (11 October).
- "Building Real States to Empower the Bottom Billion," World Politics Review (4 October).
- "Global Warming Shifts Focus to Friendly North," World Politics Review (27 September).
- "5 reasons why Ahmadinejad might just be good for the world," Esquire's The Politics Blog (21 September).
- "China still needs U.S. in global security role," World Politics Review (20 September).
- "U.S. needs an activist, independent Turkey," World Politics Review (13 September).
- "Meet the world's next 28-year-old dictator," Esquire's The Politics Blog (7 September).
- "For U.S. after Iraq, history once again awaits," World Politics Review (6 September).
- "The changing food security equation," World Politics Review (30 August).
- "Putting the brakes on China until Beijing can," World Politics Review (9 August).
- "Globalization's staying power a triumph of American 'hubris,'" World Politics Review (26 July).
- "Seven things to remember when we talk to the Taliban," Esquire's The Politics Blog (20 July).
- "U.S. must expand its pool of allies in Afghanistan," World Politics Review (19 July).
- "A divided "rest" leaves America the enduring superpower," World Politics Review (14 July).
- "America's demographic edge in 'post-American world,'" World Politics Review (12 July).
- "Listening to the Chinese case for strategic partnership," World Politics Review (5 July).
- "China's factory unrest signals peak of cheap labor," World Politics Review (28 June).
- "10 essential truths of the Petraeus-McChrystal switch," Esquire's The Politics Blog (23 June).
- "When technology becomes more human," World Politics Review (21 June).
- "Obama's strategic patience," World Politics Review (14 June).
- "5 things you didn't know about the next al-Qaeda," Esquire's The Politics Blog (9 June).
- "Redefining identity in an age of connectivity," World Politics Review (7 June).
- "The real Israeli raid fallout: Turkey with a bomb?" Esquire's The Politics Blog (1 June).
- "Whatever happened to deglobalization?" World Politics Review (31 May).
- "5 ways to get help on the North Korean mess (from China)," Esquire's The Politics Blog (25 May).
- "For U.S. and world, Obama spells relief, not cure," World Politics Review (24 May).
- "Keeping disasters in perspective," World Politics Review (17 May).
- "Foreward," in The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War, Mark Safranski, editor (Seattle WA: Amazon Digital Services, Kindle edition).
- "In politics, don't trust anyone over 50!" World Politics Review (10 May).
- "5 missing links between the Times Square bomber and Pakistan, connected," Esquire's The Politics Blog (5 May).
- "Don't count out free markets just yet," World Politics Review (3 May).
- "As Kim fades, China cashes out in North Korea," World Politics Review (26 April).
- "Life, death and the 20th century," World Politics Review (19 April).
- "Nuclear posture review fixes what ain't broken," World Politics Review (12 April).
- "Telecom and the super-empowered global middle class," World Politics Review (6 April).
- "The jury's still out on the Iraq war," World Politics Review (5 April).
- "Strategic thinking in 10,000 blog posts or less," World Politics Review (29 March).
- "Vision for the Long War finds a home," World Politics Review (22 March).
- "West must bridge globalization's 'God gap,'" World Politics Review (15 March).
- "'Senator's Son' a good window into COIN," World Politics Review (8 March).
- "Winners and losers in Iraq's upcoming election," World Politics Review (1 March).
- "America's place in the world," World Politics Review (22 February).
- "A bad time to wreck our relationship with China," World Politics Review (15 February).
- "China in Africa means frontier integration," World Politics Review (8 February).
- Great Powers: America and the World After Bush (New York: Berkley Books, paperback edition).
- "Why China will not bury America," World Politics Review (1 February).
- "Sleeper: The Awakening of Robert Gates," Esquire (February).
- "Globalization makes the world a better place," World Politics Review (25 January).
- "Drugs, technology and the coming bio-revolution," World Politics Review (18 January).
- "Globalization's next wave of integration," World Politics Review (11 January).
- "The naughties were plenty nice," World Politics Review (4 January).