My current research focuses on governmental and societal resilience in terms of the will, potential, and sustainability for resilience to subversion, coercion and aggression, and the potential for resistance to endogenous governance or foreign occupation. Understanding intrastate conflict in terms of resilience and resistance allows for the formulation of foreign policy strategies. My recent scholarship includes articles in Small Wars and Insurgencies journal in December 2023 as well as another in Expeditions of Marine Corps University Journal in January 2024. I am working a book on the same topic and much more for publication by Joint Special Operations University Press in mid-2024.

This paper applies data-driven and human-centric methodologies to examine resilience and resistance factors in China. It applies a four-phase process to analyze the Chinese Communist Party’s resiliency to subversion and/or aggression, assesses Chinese resistance to endogenous forms of governance, identifies various Chinese resistance movements, and provides possible options for an external state or actor to influence the resiliency of the Chinese Communist Party or resistance to the same.  In the process of analyzing China, seven major resistance movements in Beijing, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, and the Xinjiang Uygur are identified along a continuum from nonviolent legal forms to violent opposition. In that regard, the Republic of China is presented as a well-developed belligerency to the Chinese Communist Party. This essay maintains that domestic resistance remains the greatest fear of the Chinese Communist Party, a fact that should fundamentally influence the military strategies and foreign policies of Western nations.

The complexity of the Sahel in 2025 represents a wicked problem which requires deep understanding of resilience and resistance factors to inform innovative and adaptive Western foreign policies. 

As my life-long project, compiled primarily from declassified primary sources, is a book encompassing the most definitive account of Philippine resistance movements in World War II. While it details dozens of indiginous organizations, it makes deeper investigation into five examples: President Quezon's Own Guerillas, Luzon Guerilla Army Forces, the Hukbalahap, Free Panay Guerilla Forces, and the Maranao Militia Force.