He is the author of Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft (Cornell, 2025) and Information Technology and Military Power (Cornell, 2020), co-author with Erik Gartzke of Elements of Deterrence: Strategy, Technology, and Complexity in Global Politics (Oxford, 2024), and the editor of Cross-Domain Deterrence: Strategy in an Era of Complexity (Oxford, 2019) and China and Cybersecurity: Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain (Oxford, 2015). He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. in computer science and B.S. in symbolic systems from Stanford University. He also served in the U.S. Navy with operational assignments in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.