“War is merely the continuation of politics by other means”
― Carl von Clausewitz, On War.
Trans. Peter Parrett and Michael Howard.
“If you wish for peace, understand war.”
― B.H. Liddell Hart, Why Don't We Learn from History?

Talks and Podcasts

Media and Interviews

Books

The Plots Against Hitler

Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan

Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War

Punishment: Behind Japanese Military Brutality

Articles

“Let the Commander Respond”: The Paradox of Obedience in the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces (with Ziv Bohrer)

From Deception to Mass Murder: Operation Mole and the Kafr Qasim Massacre Reconsidered (with Yagil Henkin)

Former Nazis in German Intelligence Politics: The Exposure of Moles and Reckless Decision Making, 1959–1962

The Military-Adventurous Complex: Officers, adventurers, and Japanese expansion in East Asia, 1884–1937

Irregular Warfare in Late Medieval Japan: Towards a Historical Understanding of the “Ninja” (with Polina Serebriakova)

Pure Spirits: Imperial Japanese Justice and Right-Wing Terrorists, 1878–1936

“By Not Stopping”: The First Taiwan Expedition (1874) and the Roots of Japanese Military Disobedience

A Japanese Prophet: Eschatology and Epistemology in the Thought of Kita Ikki

Black Flags at a Crossroads: The Kafr Qasim Political Trial (1957-1958)

Tyrannicide in Radical Islam: The Case of Sayyid Qutb and Abd Al-Salam Faraj

Calculated Indifference: The Soviet Union and Requests to Bomb Auschwitz (with Mark Solonin)

Criticism Reconsidered: The German Resistance to Hitler in Critical German Scholarship

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