
Books

Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts
The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on the Ground
2007

The Ends of the Earth
1996

The Good American
The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government's Greatest Humanitarian
2021

Adriatic
A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
2022

Mediterranean Winter
2004

Surrender or Starve
Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
1988

Monsoon
The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
2010

The Revenge of Geography
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
2012

Asia's Cauldron
The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
2014

Waste Land
A World in Permanent Crisis
2025

Earning the Rockies
How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
2017

Imperial Grunts
The American Military on the Ground
2005

Warrior Politics
Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos
2001

The Return of Marco Polo's World
War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
2018

In Europe's Shadow
Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
2016

The National Interest
2015

The Tragic Mind
Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
2023

Soldiers of God
With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan
1990

Balkan Ghosts
A Journey Through History
1993

Eastward to Tartary
2000

An Empire Wilderness
1998

Arabists
The Romance of an American Elite
1993

The Loom of Time
Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
2023

The Coming Anarchy
Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
1994