David Ucko, Ph.D.
Department of War Studies
King’s College London
Major Publications
BOOKS
David H. Ucko and Robert Egnell, Britain at War: The Lessons of Counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan (Colombia University Press, 2013).
David H. Ucko, The New Counterinsurgency Era: Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2009).
Mats Berdal and David H. Ucko (eds), Reintegrating Armed Groups after Conflict: Politics, Violence and Transition(Abingdon: Routledge, 2009).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Counterinsurgency after Afghanistan: A Concept in Crisis”, Prism 3, no. 1 (December 2011)
“Counterinsurgency and its Discontents: Assessing the Value of a Divisive Concept”, SWP Research Paper 6, (2011).
“Peacebuilding After Afghanistan: Between Promise and Peril”, Contemporary Security Policy 31, no. 3 (2010)
“Lessons from Basra: The Future of British Counterinsurgency”, Survival 52, no. 4 (2010).
“Les Dilemmes de la Doctrine de Contre-Insurrection Américaine”, Sécurité Globale, 10 (Hiver 2010).
“The Malayan Emergency: Legacy and Relevance of a Counterinsurgency Success-Story”, Defence Studies 10, no. 1 (2010).
“Militias, Tribes and Insurgents: The Challenge of Reintegration in Iraq”, Conflict, Security & Development 8, no. 3 (2008).
“Countering Insurgents Through Distributed Operations: Insights from Malaya”, Journal of Strategic Studies 30, no. 1 (2007).
“NATO at 60”, w/ M. Berdal, Survival 51, no. 2 (2009).
“Innovation or Inertia: The U.S. Military and the Learning of Counterinsurgency”, Orbis 52, no. 2 (2008).
“US Counterinsurgency in the Information Age”, Jane's Intelligence Review 17, no. 10 (2005).
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Whither Counterinsurgency: The Rise and Fall of a Divisive Concept” in Paul Rich and Isabelle Duyvesteyn (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency (Routledge, 2012).
“Foreword”, to Grégor Mathias, Galula in Algeria: Counterinsurgency Practice versus Theory (Praeger, 2011).
“Les Dilemmes de la Doctrine de Contre-Insurrection Américaine: Répétition, Pertinence et Effet”, in G.H. Bricet des Vallons, ed., Faut-Il Brûler la Contre-Insurrection (Choiseul, 2010).
“Whither NATO?”, w/ M. Berdal, in S. Forman, B. D. Jones, R. Gowan, eds, Cooperating for Peace and Security (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
“Reintegrating Armed Groups after Conflict”, w/ M. Berdal, in Berdal & Ucko, Reintegrating Armed Groups after Conflict.
“Militias, Tribes and Insurgents: Challenge of Political Reintegration in Iraq”, in Reintegrating Armed Groups after Conflict.
“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 Iraq Wars and America’s Military Revolution‘, Keith L. Shimko, in Contemporary Security Review, 31:3 (2010 – forthcoming).
‘A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq’, Mark Moyar, in Journal of Military History, 74:1 (2010).
‘On New Wars’ John Andreas Olsen, ed.’, in Journal of Strategic Studies, 32:2 (2009).
‘Governing Insecurity: Democratic Control of Military and Security Establishments in Transitional Democracies’, Gavin Cawthra and Robin Luckham, eds, in Conflict, Security & Development, 4:1 (2004).