Walter Ladwig

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Walter C. Ladwig III, The Forgotten Front: Patron-Client Relations in Counterinsurgency (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

EDITED COLLECTIONS

Walter C. Ladwig III and Anit Mukherjee, eds., “On the U.S.-India Partnership,” special issue of Asia Policy, Vol. 14, No. 1 (January 2019).

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Non-Resident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel,” International Studies Quarterly, forthcoming (with Sumitha Narayan Kutty).

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Parliamentary Interest in Foreign Security Policy: Insight from the Indian Lok Sabha,” Foreign Policy Analysis, forthcoming. 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Executive Particularism and Ministerial Selection in India,” Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 3 (July 2020). 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “India and the United States: The Contours of an Asian Partnership,” Asia Policy, Vol. 14, No. 1 (January 2019). (with Anit Mukherjee). 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Sailing Together or Ships Passing in the Night? India and the U.S. in Southeast Asia,” Asia Policy, Vol. 14, No. 1 (January 2019). (with Anit Mukherjee). 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Influencing Clients in Counterinsurgency: U.S. Involvement in El Salvador’s Civil War, 1979–92,” International Security, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Summer 2016). 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Indian Military Modernization and Conventional Deterrence in South Asia,” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 38, No. 4 (2015). 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “A Neo-Nixon Doctrine for the Indian Ocean: Helping States Help Themselves,” Strategic Analysis, Vol. 36, No. 3 (May 2012). 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “India and Military Power Projection: Will the Land of Gandhi Become a Conventional Great Power?” Asian Survey, Vol. 50, No. 6 (November/December 2010). 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Diego Garcia and America’s Emerging Indian Ocean Strategy,” Asian Security, Vol. 6, No. 3 (September 2010). (with Andrew Erickson and Justin Mikolay). 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Delhi’s Pacific Ambition: Naval Power, ‘Look East,’ and India’s Emerging Role in the Asia-Pacific,” Asian Security, Vol. 5, No. 2 (June 2009). 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “A Cold Start for Hot Wars? The Indian Army’s New Limited War Doctrine,” International Security, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Winter 2007/08). 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Supporting Allies in Counterinsurgency: Britain and the Dhofar Rebellion,” Small Wars & Insurgencies, Vol. 19, No. 1 (March 2008). 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Training Foreign Police: A Missing Aspect of U.S. Security Assistance to Counterinsurgency,” Comparative Strategy, Vol. 26, No. 4 (July 2007). *The Australian Army identified this article as recommended reading for its senior officers*

BOOK CHAPTERS AND WORKING PAPERS

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Institutions of Democratic Control and Oversight” in Croissant, A., Kuehn, D. & Pion-Berlin, D. (eds.), Research Handbook on Civil-Military Relations (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2024), pp. 99-116. (with Anit Mukherjee).

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Nuclear Coercion: Evaluating Insights from Academic Scholarship” in Prakash Menon and Aditya Ramanathan, eds., The Sheathed Sword: From Nuclear Brink to No First Use (Oxford: Bloomsbury, 2022).

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Strengthening Partners to Keep the Peace: A Neo-Nixon Doctrine for the Indian Ocean” in Peter Dombrowski and Andrew C. Winner, eds., The Indian Ocean and US Grand Strategy Ensuring Access and Promoting Security (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014).

Walter C. Ladwig III, “When the Police are the Problem: The Philippine Constabulary and the Huk Rebellion” in C. Christine Fair and Sumit Ganguly, eds., Policing Insurgencies: Cops as Counterinsurgents (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Walter C. Ladwig III “The Military Geography of Diego Garcia: Future Implications for U.S. Power Projection in the Indian Ocean,” in Carnes Lord and Andrew S. Erickson, eds., U.S. Basing and Presence in the Asia-Pacific (Newport, RI: Naval Institute Press, 2014).(with Andrew S. Erickson and Justin D. Mikolay)

Walter C. Ladwig III “Drivers of Indian Naval Expansion,” in Harsh Pant, ed., The Rise of the Indian Navy: Internal Vulnerabilities, External Challenges (Ashgate, 2012). 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Looking East 2 (East Asia/Australasia)” in David Scott, ed., A Handbook of India’s International Relations (London: Routledge, 2011).

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Insights from the Northeast: Counterinsurgency in Nagaland and Mizoram,” in David P. Fidler and Sumit Ganguly, eds., India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons Learned (London: Routledge, 2009). 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Security Assistance and Counterinsurgency: The British Experience in Oman, 1964-1975,” in Kendall Gott, ed., Security Assistance: U.S. and International Historical Perspectives (Leavenworth, KS: CSI Press, 2006).

PUBLICATIONS IN POLICY JOURNALS AND BOOK REVIEWS

Walter C. Ladwig III. “The Indo-Pacific in Indian Foreign Policy,” (London: RUSI, April 2024).

Walter C. Ladwig III. “The Future of UK-India Relations,” in UK-India Relations (London: UK in a Changing Europe, April 2024). (with Anit Mukherjee).

Walter C. Ladwig III. “Assessing India’s Response to the Ukraine Conflict,” in Zeno Leoni, Maeve Ryan and Gesine Weber, eds. War in Ukraine: One Year On (London: Center for Grand Strategy, February 2023). (with Sumitha Narayanan Kutty).

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Friendly Persuasion is Not Enough: The Limits of the Lansdale Approach,” Texas National Security Review (April 2018) 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “The Forgotten Force: Police-Building in Iraq and Afghanistan,” World Politics Review (May 2013) 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Diego Garcia : Anchoring America’s Future Presence in the Indo-Pacific,” Harvard Asia Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer 2013) 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “India and the Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific,” Joint Force Quarterly, No. 57 (April 2010) 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Indian Military Doctrine and Warfighting: The Challenge of Change,” Seminar, No. 596 (June 2009)

Review of Graham A. Cosmas, MACV: The Joint Command in the Years of Escalation, 1962-1967 (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 2006), in War in History, Vol. 15, No. 2 (April 2008) 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “Managing Counterinsurgency: Lessons from Malaya,” Military Review, Vol. 87, No. 3 (May 2007) 

Review of John T. Fishel and Max G. Manwaring, Uncomfortable Wars Revisited (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006), in Joint Force Quarterly, No. 45 (April 2007) 

Review of Richard Schultz and Andrea Dew, Insurgents, Terrorists and Militias: The Warriors of Contemporary Combat (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006) in Military Review, Vol. 87, No. 2 (March 2007) 

Walter C. Ladwig III, “The Future of the British Nuclear Deterrent: An Assessment of Decision Factors,” Strategic Insights, Vol. 6, No. 1 (January 2007)[/vc_column_text]