Select Public Commentary
- “The Logics of Military Force: Or, How India and Pakistan Fought Each Other and Didn’t Use the Bomb.” (With Patrick Sullivan). The Modern War Institute, May 14, 2025.
- “Running an essay competition: Behind the MWI-TRADOC Recruiting Essay Competition.” (With Zachary Griffiths). Harding Project Substack, December 20, 2023.
- “Ukraine’s Post-War Military: The Case for Professionalism.” (With Laura Samotin). The National Interest, December 15, 2023.
- “Why Russian Conscripts Can’t Subdue Ukraine." (With Laura Samotin), The Wall Street Journal, May 5, 2022.
"The Downside of High Trust in the Military." (With Jessica Blankshain). The New York Times, September 18, 2021, p. A23 - “Essay by Max Margulies in Teaching Roundtable on the Cold War in IR.” H-Diplo Roundtable XXII-50: 11–14, July 17, 2021.
- "Congress considers future of the military draft, while Supreme Court holds off." (With Amy Rutenberg). The Conversation, June, 2021
- "Shifting Norms About Secretary of Defense has Long-Term Consequences." (With Jessica Blankshain and Danielle Lupton). Just Security, December 2020
- "Trump’s election fraud allegations suggest military voters uniformly supported him. It’s not so." (With Danielle Lupton). Monkey Cage, November 2020
- "The National Commission on Public Service is Right to Endorse Women's Draft Registration." Lawfare, March 2020
- "What Discord Follows: The Divisive Debate Over Military Disobedience." (With Lindsay Cohn and Michael A. Robinson). War on the Rocks, August 2019. Check out an update to this argument in our book chapter at Oxford University Press!
- "The Greatest Sacrifice: Why Military Service Should Not be an Obligation of Citizenship." War on the Rocks, May 2018