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Books and monographs
Strategic Influence: Public Diplomacy, Counterpropaganda and Political Warfare Founding Political Warfare Documents of the United States The Public Diplomacy Reader Fighting the War of Ideas like a Real War Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes Secret Empire: The KGB in Russia Today The Third Current of Revolution: Inside the ‘North American Front’ of El Salvador’s Guerrilla War
Papers, chapters & articles
America needs an in-kind deterrent to Russia’s political warfare Decision Brief 2018.002 July 23, 2018.“Designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization Decision Brief 2018.001, June 28, 2018.
“Weaponizing Ridicule ,Military Review (US Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth), September-October 2017.
“Russia’s New Information War: What It’s Like and What to Do About It Putin’s Reset: The Bear Is Back and How America Must Respond (Washington: Center for Security Policy, 2016).
“Understanding Subversion: Non-Violent Warfare in an Age of Countering Violent Extremism
“The Muslim Brotherhood: Doctrine, Strategy, Operations & Vulnerabilities Meeting the Ideological Challenge of Islamism: How to Combat Modern Radical Islam
“Getting Serious About Strategic Influence: How to Move Beyond the State Department’s Legacy of Failure Journal of International Security Affairs , December 2009.
“The American Way of Propaganda: Lessons from the Founding Fathers
“Making Jihad Work for America ,” Journal of International Security Affairs , March 2006.
“Prisons as Terrorist Breeding Grounds, ” in James Forest, ed., The Making of a Terrorist , Vol. 1 of 3 (Praeger, 2005). Project of the Combating Terrorism Center, US Military Academy at West Point.
“Deception and Denial by Non-State Actors: The Case of Russian Organized Crime ,” paper delivered at the National Strategy Information Center, September 1999.
“‘Delay, Postpone, Obfuscate, Derail’ – A case study of US aid to the former USSR ,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization , Winter 1997, with rebuttals from Ashton Carter from the US Department of Defense, and Ambassador Richard Morningstar from the US Department of State.
“Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup, The Suppressed Transcripts, Part 4: Hearings on the Participation of the Leadership of the Soviet Armed Forces Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization , Summer 1996, pp. 603-622 (editor).
“Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup, The Suppressed Transcripts, Part 3: Hearings ‘About the Illegal Financial Activity of the CPSU Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization , Spring 1996, pp. 271-311 (editor).
“Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup, The Suppressed Transcripts, Part 2: Hearings ‘Concerning the Role of Repressive Organs in the Putsch of 19-21 August 1991 Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization , Winter 1996, pp. 109-138 (editor).
“Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup, The Suppressed Transcripts, Part 1: Hearings ‘Concerning the Role of the Repressive Organs in the Putsch of 19-21 August 1991 Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization , Fall 1995, pp. 411-450 (editor).
“DGI and KGB Political Operations in the United States ,” in Brian Crozier, The KGB Lawsuits (London: Claridge Press, 1995).
“Who Is Making Russian Foreign Policy ?”Perspective (Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy), Vol V, No. 3, January-February 1995. Making RF For Pol Persp copy
“When Will Democrats Control the Former KGB? Opportunities for Russian-US Cooperation ,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization , Vol. 1, No. 1, Summer 1992. DEM Dems Control KGB 01-1
“The ANC Support Network in the United States ,” Southern African Freedom Review , Autumn 1989, pp. 59-83.
“America needs an in-kind deterrent to Russia’s political warfare,” Center for Security Policy Decision Brief 2018.002 July 23, 2018.