David Tucker

David C. Tucker is Associate Professor of Defense Analysis at the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.  He serves as the thesis and capstone project coordinator for the Ashland MAHG program. 

Books:

• United States Special Operations Forces, co-written with Christopher Lamb, (Columbia University Press, 2007).
• Skirmishes at the Edge of Empire, The United States and International Terrorism (Praeger, 1997).
• Statecraft and Power, co-editor with Christopher Harmon (University Press of America, 1994).

Selected Publications:

• "John Quincy Adams on Principle and Practice," chapter in History of American Political Thought Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga, eds., (Lexington Press, 2003).
• "What's New about the New Terrorism and How Dangerous Is It?," in Terrorism and Political Violence (Autumn, 2001).
• "American Support for Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the 1980s: Lessons for the Future," chapter in Statecraft and Power, eds. David Tucker and Christopher Harmon (University Press of America, 1994).
• "Jefferson and the Practice of Empire," chapter in Natural Right and Political Right, eds. Thomas B. Silver and Peter W. Schramm (Carolina Academic Press, 1984).