• “Ho, Giap, and OSS Agent Henry Prunier,” Vietnam Magazine, May 2011
• “American Thunder Childs: U.S. Navy Ram Ships in the 19th Century,” Naval History, June 2010
• “The Ship is the Visual, Even in the Shadow Zones,” Small Wars Journal, May 2010
• “Ho Chi Minh and the OSS,” Vietnam Magazine, December 2009
• “Security at Sea,” Forbes.com, May 2009
• “The Post-Oceanic Navy, the New Shadow Zones, and the U.S. Navy’s Force Structure Challenges,” Small Wars Journal, May 2009
• “Private Security Companies and Piracy,” Jane’s Intelligence Review, March 2009
• “The Navy Can Handle the Truth: Creative Friction without Conflict,” Naval Institute Proceedings, February 2009
• “Private Naval Companies for Humanitarian Operations,” Journal of International Peacekeeping Operations, October 2008
• “Budget Battles, Interest Groups and Relevancy in a New Era: The 1837 Ship of the Line USS Pennsylvania,” Naval Institute Proceedings, January 2008
• “Contracts of Marque,” Naval Institute Proceedings, November 2007
• “Blackwaters for the Blue Waters: The Promise of Private Naval Companies,” Orbis, October 2007
• “10 Leadership Lessons from a 62-year Naval Career,” Naval Institute Proceedings, August 2003 (2nd Place Astor Leadership Essay Contest)
• “The Court-Martial of Commodore Charles Stewart” Naval History, October 2002
•  ”The Administrative Code of 1931: William Tudor Gardiner and Government Reform.” Maine History 39, no.2 (Summer 2000): 116-132.

Op-Eds

• “Anti-Piracy, Inc.” The Washington Times, March 2010
• “From DADT to DKDC,” U.S. Naval Institute blog, February 2010
• “Somalia’s Piracy Problem is Everyone’s Problem,” Christian Science Monitor, December 2008

Book Reviews

• “Small Boats, Dirty Money,” Naval War College Review, July 2009
• “Pirates: Parasites, not Philanthropists,” The Washington Times, May 2009
• “Bernard Fall: Memoirs of a Soldier-Scholar,” Naval History, April 2008
• “Six Frigates,” Journal of the Early Republic, July 2007
• “The Past as Prologue,” Naval Institute Proceedings, April 2007

Contributor

• “Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History: A Reference Guide to the Nation’s Most Catastrophic Events,” Facts on File Library of American History, 2008
• ABC-CLIO Encyclopedias on the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War