books in progress
Book Projects
Two books on military memory, adaptation, and the institutions of war.
A Muse of Fire: Why the U.S. Military Forgets What It Learns in War
Manuscript completed · in conversation with publishers
A study of organizational learning and forgetting in the U.S. military — why hard-won lessons of war decay once the fighting stops, and what that pattern reveals about innovation, adaptation, and the limits of institutional memory. Drawn from the author's Oxford doctoral research.
The Shot in the Dark: A History of the U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Group, 2006–2021
Under contract with the U.S. Army
A history of the Asymmetric Warfare Group, the Army's experiment in rapid battlefield adaptation, from its founding through its 2021 disestablishment — based on extensive interviews and archival research. To be published by the Center of Military History or Army University Press.