Books

Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Warfare: USA, China, and strategic stability 

Manchester University Press (2021)

US-China Military & Defense Relationship during the Obama Presidency

'New Security Challenges Series,' Palgrave Macmillan (2018)

Peer-review Articles

'Catalytic Nuclear War in the Age of AI and Autonomy: New military technology and inadvertent escalation risk between nuclear powers'

The Journal of Strategic Studies (Available online, January 2021)

'Deterrence in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy: A paradigm shift in nuclear deterrence theory and practice?'

Defense & Security Analysis, Vol. 36, Issue 4 (2020): 422-448

'Delegating Strategic Decisions to Machines: Dr Strangelove redux?'

The Journal of Strategic Studies (Available online, April 2020)

'Artificial Intelligence in Future Hyper-Warfare: A perfect storm of instability?'

The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 43, Issue 2 (Summer, 2020): 197-211

'Artificial Intelligence: A Threat to Strategic Stability'

Strategic Studies Quarterly, Vol. 14, Issue 1 (2020): 16-29

'AI, Drone Swarming, & Escalation Risks in Future Warfare'

The RUSI Journal, Vol. 165, Issue 2 (2020): 26-36

'The AI-Cyber Nexus: Implications for military escalation, deterrence, & strategic stability'

The Journal of Cyber Policy, Vol. 4, Issue 3 (2019): 442-460

'The End of Military-Technological Pax Americana? US-China strategic competition in artificial intelligence enabling technologies' 

The Pacific Review (Available online, October 2019)

'Artificial Intelligence & Future Warfare: Implications for international security'

Defense & Security Analysis, Vol. 35, Issue 2 (2019): 147-169

'China’s Vision of the Future Network-Centric Battlefield: Cyber, space, and electromagnetic asymmetric challenges to the US'

Comparative Strategy, Vol. 37, Issue 5 (2019): 373-390

'Chinese Evolving Approaches to Nuclear ‘War-fighting’: An emerging intense US-China Security dilemma in the nuclear domain and threats to crisis stability in the Asia Pacific'

Asian Security, Vol. 15, Issue 3 (2019): 215-232

'China’s ‘Guam Express’ and ‘Carrier Killers’: The anti-ship asymmetric challenge to the U.S. in the Western Pacific, and security dilemma explanations'

Comparative Strategy, Vol. 36, Issue 4 (2017): 319-332

'Washington’s Perceptions and Misperceptions of Beijing’s anti-access area-denial (A2/AD) ‘strategy’: Implications for military escalation control and strategic stability'

The Pacific Review, Vol. 20, Issue 3 (2017):  271-288

Book Chapters

'US Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Security Technologies Policy in the Indo-Pacific,' in Oliver Turner, Nicola Nymalm, and Wali Aslam (eds)

Routledge Handbook of US policy in the Indo-Pacific (Routledge, Forthcoming)

'Does the United States Face a Multipolar Future? Washington's Response Through the Lens of Technology,' in Benjamin Zala (eds)

National Perspectives on a Multipolar Order (Manchester University Press, 2021)

'Emerging Technologies and Chinese Challenges to US Innovation Leadership,' in Reuben Steff, Simone Soare, and Joe Burton (eds) 

Emerging Technologies and International Security Machines, the State and War (Routledge, 2020)

'The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Strategic Stability, Escalation, & Nuclear Security,' in Sam Dudin and Chelsey Wiley (eds)

The 2019 UK PONI Papers (Royal United Services Institute, 2019)

'China’s Nuclear Modernisation: The Evolution of Chinese Nuclear Doctrine, Strategic Ambiguities, and Implications for Sino-US Relations,' in M Kouhi-Esfahani (eds)

Nuclear politics in Asia (Routledge, 2018) co-authored with Andrew Futter

Non-academic Publications

'Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy, and the Risk of Catalytic Nuclear War'

Modern War Institute, March 2021

'Rethinking Nuclear Deterrence in the Age of Artificial Intelligence'

Modern War Institute, January 2021

'Artificial Intelligence in Warfare: A Threat to Strategic Stability?'

Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction (IICRR), Dublin City University, November 2020

'Artificial Intelligence and the Bomb: Nuclear Command & Control in the Age of the Algorithm' 

Modern War Institute, May 2020

'AI, Cyberspace, and Nuclear Weapons'

War on the Rocks, January 2020

'Is the US losing the artificial intelligence arms race?'

The Conversation, October 2019

'China and the US are Racing to Develop AI Weapons'

The Conversation, June 2018

'China’s Evolving Approach to Nuclear War-Fighting'

The Diplomat, November 2017

'If Trump is bluffing on North Korea, the results could be catastrophic'

The Conversation, August 2017

'The Shadow of an Unrestrainable Military-Technological Security Dilemma: U.S.-China relations at a dangerous crossroads'

Think Leicester, July 2017

'Is China Moving Towards a Nuclear ‘War-Fighting’ Posture?'

The Institute of Asia & Pacific Studies, University of Nottingham, June 2017

'High-tech China-US arms race threatens to destabilize East Asia'

The Conversation, May 2017

'China’s Vision of the Future Networked Battlefield: Cyber, Space and Electronic Warfare Challenges to the US in the Western Pacific'

The Diplomat, April 2017

'China’s Missiles Threaten New Arms Race'

Newsweek, March 2017

'China’s anti-ship missiles threaten an arms race in the Western Pacific'

The Conversation, March 2017

'China's new missile could threaten an arms war in the Pacific'

The Business Insider, March 2017

'Is China moving towards a nuclear ‘Warfighting’ posture?'

The Conversation, February 2017

'Nuclear No First Use and President Obama’s Legacy'

Think Leicester, August 2016 - with Andrew Futter