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In addition to the peer reviewed works below my public media portfolio can be viewed at http://whitneygrespin.pressfolios.com/. I've had the privilege of being published by Forbes, Foreign Affairs, UPI, and War on the Rocks, amongst other outlets.
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“Enhancing Operational Effectiveness Through an Analysis of the Women, Peace, and Security Environment in Djibouti.” Sandhurst Trends in Conflict: Women, Peace and Security in Military Operations. Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Howgate Publishing. 2023.
Civilians are disproportionately impacted by contemporary armed conflict, with women, children, and other vulnerable groups among the most affected. Effective military operations occur against the backdrop of two major shifts in international thinking on security: Human Security and the Women, Peace and Security agenda (WPS). These innovations have radically transformed the field of contemporary security studies and continue to evolve and be debated in both academic and policy circles. However, militaries have been slow to adopt these ideas and adapt their behaviours to account for the importance of protecting civilians, gender mainstreaming, women’s participation, responsibilities on children in conflict, and preventing egregious crimes, such as modern slavery and human trafficking. This book is a conversation between academics and civilian and military practitioners to better understand the contemporary challenges and obligations militaries have towards realising the WPS agenda. Drawing on expertise from military, academia, and civil society it offers insights and recommendations on how militaries can effectively integrate the WPS agenda into their operations. |
"The Easy Button: Foreign Military Training as an Exit Plan." Sandhurst Trends in Conflict: War Amongst the People. Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Howgate Publishing. 2019.
Recent conflicts have required the armed forces to engage in what has been termed ‘war amongst the people’. Such conflicts increasingly require a type of soldier deployed to function as an ‘armed social worker’, as was seen most recently in operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. If this increased focus on societal relations has – and should – become the area of prime concern for contemporary armed forces, this poses a series of conceptual and practical questions regarding the ‘people’ concerned and the nature of the society amongst which war is conducted. Scholars and practitioners come together in this volume to explore how armed forces can make sense of such complexity in conceptual terms and how military actors have practically interacted with local power structures and relations, with both positive and negative effects. It examines armed forces’ engagement at the local level in a contemporary context, and contextualises this within the broader political, strategic, tactical and legal implications this engagement has had at home and overseas. |
Peer Reviewed
Book Reviews
- Journal of African Military History. Things Fall Apart: Soviet Assistance to the Somali Armed Forces, 1960–1977. 6 October 2022.
- U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute monograph, The Evolving Contingency Contracting Market: Private Sector Self-Regulation and USG Monitoring of Stability Operations Services Procurement. January 2016.
- Journal of Strategic Security. From the Ground Up: The Importance of Preserving SOF Capacity Building Skills. July 2014. (450 distinct downloads as of July 2017)
- Small Wars Journal. The Spaces in Between: Mitigating Threats in Undergoverned Spaces with Michael Rettig. 17 October 2013.
- PRIAD (Partnership for Research in International Affairs & Development). Shohna ba Shohna: US Interests in Transition from Coalition to Afghan National Security Forces. July 2013 printing; Volume 1, Issue 1.
- Stability: International Journal of Security & Development. Fifty-four Durand Lines. 23 July 2013.
Book Reviews
- International Affairs/Chatham House, “Illicit money: financing terrorism in the twenty-first century,” by Jessica Davis and “Blood money: how criminals, militias, rebels, and warlords finance violence,” by Margaret Sankey.
- International Affairs/Chatham House, “The frontlines of peace: an insider's guide to changing the world,” by Severine Autesserre.
- Parameters/U.S. Army War College Press, “Scripts of Terror: The Stories Terrorists Tell Themselves,” by Benedict Wilkinson
- Strategy Bridge. "Fighting for Peace in Somalia: A History and Analysis of AMISOM 2007-2017" by Paul Williams, 2018.
- The Wavell Room. "Wartime Sexual Violence" by Kerry Crawford, 2017.
- Peace & Stability Journal, Special 25th Anniversary Edition, Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute. "Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses" by Hilary Matfess. 2018.
- Parameters, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College. "Warlord Democrats in Africa: Ex-Military Leaders and Electoral Politics." 2018.
- IJMH (International Journal of Military History and Historiography), Brill Publishers "The Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America" by Matthew P. Dziennik. 2017.
- Parameters, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College. "Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars" by Chris Woods. 2017.
U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE WAR ROOM PUBLICATION 2017-2020
Associate Editor, Built on the principle that open competition improves the quality of ideas, WAR ROOM features innovative and provocative articles and podcasts that explore significant challenges in national security and defense. WAR ROOM is the online journal of the United States Army War College, created through the gracious support of the U.S. Army War College Foundation. Although it is a publication of the USAWC, WAR ROOM is not just for the Army community and seeks a broad audience of well-informed readers/listeners interested in national security and defense.
▪ Serve as editorial subject matter expert reviewer on peace and stability operations, military contracting, and building partner capacity/foreign internal defense
Associate Editor, Built on the principle that open competition improves the quality of ideas, WAR ROOM features innovative and provocative articles and podcasts that explore significant challenges in national security and defense. WAR ROOM is the online journal of the United States Army War College, created through the gracious support of the U.S. Army War College Foundation. Although it is a publication of the USAWC, WAR ROOM is not just for the Army community and seeks a broad audience of well-informed readers/listeners interested in national security and defense.
▪ Serve as editorial subject matter expert reviewer on peace and stability operations, military contracting, and building partner capacity/foreign internal defense