David H. Ucko, Ph.D.
Department of War Studies
King’s College London
Major Publications
BOOKS
Counterinsurgency in Crisis: Britain and the Challenges of Modern Warfare, David H.
Ucko & Robert Egnell (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).
The New Counterinsurgency Era: Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars
(Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, August 2009) – One of CHOICE
Magazine’s 2010 Outstanding Academic Titles.
Reintegrating Armed Groups after Conflict: Politics, Violence and Transition, Mats
Berdal & David Ucko, eds. (Abingdon: Routledge, May 2009).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Counterinsurgency in El Salvador: The Lessons and Limits of the Indirect
Approach’, Small Wars and Insurgencies, vol. 24, no. 4 (2013).
‘The Five Fallacies of Clear-Hold-Build: Counter-insurgency, Governance and
Development at the Local Level’, RUSI Journal, vol. 158, no. 3 (2013)
‘Counterinsurgency After Afghanistan: A Concept in Crisis‘, PRISM, vol. 3, no. 1
(December 2011).
‘Counterinsurgency and its Discontents: Assessing the Value of a Divisive
Concept‘, SWP Research Paper, no. 6, (April 2011).
‘Peacebuilding After Afghanistan: Between Promise and Peril’, Contemporary
Security Policy 31, no. 3 (2010) –nominated for the 2010 Bernard Brodie Prize,
awarded to the outstanding article of the year
‘Lessons from Basra: The Future of British Counter-insurgency’, Survival vol. 52, no.
4 (2010).
‘The Malayan Emergency: The Legacy and Relevance of a Counter-insurgency
Success-Story’, Defence Studies, vol. 10, no. 1 (2010).
‘Les dilemmes de la doctrine de contre-insurrection américaine : répétition,
pertinence et effet’, Sécurité Globale, no. 10 (Hiver 2010).
‘NATO at 60′, Mats Berdal & David Ucko, Survival, vol. 51, no. 2 (2009).
‘Militias, Tribes and Insurgents: The Challenge of Political Reintegration in Iraq’,
Conflict, Security & Development, vol. 8, no. 3 (October 2008).
‘Innovation or Inertia: The U.S. Military and the Learning of Counterinsurgency’,
Orbis, vol. 52, no. 2 (Spring 2008).
‘Countering Insurgents Through Distributed Operations: Insights from Malaya 19481960′, Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 30, no.1 (2007) – winner of the 2007 Amos
Perlmutter Prize, awarded to the most outstanding article written that year by a junior
faculty member.
‘US Counterinsurgency in the Information Age’, Jane’s Intelligence Review, vol. 17,
no. 10 (December 2005).
BOOK CHAPTERS
‘Whither Counterinsurgency: The Rise and Fall of a Divisive Concept‘, in Paul B.
Rich and Isabelle Duyvesteyn (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and
Counterinsurgency (Abdingdon: Routledge, 2012).
‘Foreword‘, to Grégor Mathias, Galula in Algeria: Counterinsurgency Practice versus
Theory (Praeger Security International, 2011).
‘Les Dilemmes de la Doctrine de Contre-Insurrection Américaine : Répétition,
Pertinence et Effet‘, in Georges-Henri Bricet des Vallons (ed.), Faut-Il Brûler la
Contre-Insurrection (Paris: Choiseul, 2010).
‘Whither NATO?’, Mats Berdal & David Ucko, in Bruce D. Jones, Shepard Forman &
Richard Gowan, eds, Cooperating for Peace and Security: Evolving Institutions and
Arrangements in a Context of Changing U.S. Security Policy (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2009).
‘Reintegrating Armed Groups after Conflict’, Mats Berdal & David Ucko, in Berdal &
Ucko, Reintegrating Armed Groups after Conflict: Politics, Violence and Transition
(Abingdon: Routledge, 2009).
‘Militias, Tribes and Insurgents: The Challenge of Political Reintegration in Iraq’, in
Berdal & Ucko, Reintegrating Armed Groups after Conflict (Abingdon: Routledge,
2009).
‘The Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)’, in The British Approach to Low-Intensity
Operations, Part II, Technical Report: Network Centric Operations (NCO) Case
Study, US Department of Defense, 2006.
‘Science and Technology’, Confronting Terrorism, in The Club de Madrid Series on
Democracy and Terrorism, vol. II, 2005.
REPORTS AND SHORTER ARTICLES
‘Resetting Article 5: Toward a New Understanding of NATO’s Security
Guarantees‘, World Politics Review, 26 Oct. 2010.
‘The Role of Economic Instruments in Ending Conflicts: Priorities and Constraints’,
IISS Economics and Conflict Resolution Programme, Report on IISS Roundtable on
6 May 2009 at the National Press Club, Washington DC.
‘Upcoming Iraqi Elections Must Consolidate Security Gains of “Sons of Iraq"’, World
Politics Review, 20 May 2008.
Israel’s Strategic Victory in Lebanon‘, openDemocracy, 20 October 2006.
‘African peacekeeping – Revival or Relapse?’, Mats Berdal & David Ucko (not
attributed) Strategic Comments, 10:5 (2004).
‘Suicide attacks – a tactical weapon system’, David Ucko & Christopher Langton,
International Institute for Strategic Studies, May 2002.
Multiple reports for the International Institute for Strategic Studies Armed Conflict
Database, 2001-2003.
BOOK REVIEWS
‘The Violent Image: Insurgent Propaganda and the New Revolutionaries’, Nevil Bolt,
in Small Wars & Insurgencies (in press).
‘The Iraq Wars and America’s Military Revolution‘, Keith L. Shimko, in Contemporary
Security Review, vol. 31, no. 3 (2010).
‘A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq’, Mark
Moyar, in Journal of Military History, vol. 74, no. 1 (2010).
‘On New Wars’ John Andreas Olsen, ed.’, in Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 32, no.
2 (2009).
‘Governing Insecurity: Democratic Control of Military and Security Establishments in
Transitional Democracies’, Gavin Cawthra and Robin Luckham, eds, in Conflict,
Security & Development, vol. 4, no. 1 (2004).