Drones and Targeted Killing in the Middle East and Africa: An Appraisal of American Counterterrorism Policies. — London: Lexington Books, 2016. — 274 pp.
Americans and asymmetric conflict: Lebanon, Somalia, and Afghanistan / Adam B. Lowther; foreword by Donald M. Snow. — Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007. — 252 pp.
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. — New York, NY: Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 1999. — 483 pp.
A Testimony: How Captain Ahmed Defied a Dictator’s Orders to Bombard Hargeisa. — Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, 2020. — 50 p.
Things fall apart : containing the spillover from an Iraqi civil war / Daniel L. Byman, Kenneth M. Pollack. — Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 2007. – 257 p.
The Terrorist Next Door: How the government is deceiving you about the Islamist threat. – Washington, DC.: Regnery Publishing Inc, 2011. – 257 p.
The Limits of Turkish Soft Power and Mediation Capability: A Comparative Case Study of Turkish Involvement in Syria and Somalia. — Istanbul: Sabancı University, 2014. – 137 pp
“The Cheapest Insurance in the World”? The United States and Proxy Warfare. — Arlington, VA: CAN Analysis & Solutions, 2019. – 80 p
Somalia-Somaliland: The Perils of Delaying New Talks // Africa Report N°280, 12 July 2019. — Brussels: International Crisis Group, 2019. — 27 p
Security, Clans and Tribes: Unstable Governance in Somaliland, Yemen and the Gulf of Aden. — London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 166 p