Draft:Phil W. Reynolds

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Phil W. Reynolds, born July 6, 1975, is a Professor of Security Cooperation for the U.S. Department of Defense.

Reynolds was born in Maysville, West Virginia and graduated from Petersburg High School. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve in September 1992 and after securing a four-year ROTC scholarship, graduated from Saint Bonaventure University in New York, in 1997.

As an Army officer, Reynolds was assigned to 1st Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, at Fort Bragg, then 1st Battalion, 15th Field Artillery in the Republic of Korea. Following battery command with 6th Battalion, 32d Field Artillery, he was detailed to the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School as a Civil Affairs officer. Assigned as a Civil Affairs Team leader in the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne), he deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and numerous countries in Africa.

Reynolds is the author of Ouroboros: Understanding the War Machine of Liberalism and numerous articles in peer-reviewed and refereed journals.,

Works as author

Reynolds, Philip. "Security Conditionality: Evidence and Effectiveness." Journal of Strategic Security 18, no. 1 (2025) : 89-116.

Reynolds, Phil W. "Past Failures and Future Problems: The Psychology of Irregular War." Small Wars & Insurgencies 26, no. 3 (2015): 446-458.

Reynolds, Phil W. "Clausewitz and the Partisan: Accounting for Unlimited Enmity in the Twenty-first Century.” Journal of Military Studies. 10, no. 1 (2021): 130–138.

Reynolds, Phil W. "Building Partner Capacity Is Great Power Competition: The Future of 333 Funds.” Small Wars Journal. (2021).

Reynolds, Phil W. "Long Wars: Demonstrating the Corrosive Effects of Irregular Wars on Dominant States." Social Sciences 7, no. 1 (2018): 43-54.

Reynolds, Phil W. "What Comes Next?" Military Review. 92, no. 5 (2012): 35-41.

Reynolds, Phil W. Ouroboros: Understanding the War Machine of Liberalism. Rowman & Littlefield Books. (2019).

Reynolds, Phil W. “Remote Warfare and the Problem With the Suleimani Hit.” Real Clear Defense. (2020).

Reynolds, Phil W. "Persistent Conflict and Special Operations Forces." Military Review. 94, no 2 (2014).

Reynolds, Phil W. "Ontopower: War, Powers, and the State of Perception." Parameters. 46, no. 3 (2016): 125-127.

Reynolds, Phil W. "What Happens if North Korea Collapses?" The Diplomat. 3 (2016).

Reynolds, Phil W. "The Durability of Ethnicity: Intra-state and Non-state Violence." Small Wars Journal. (2016).

Reynolds, Phil W. "A Theory of the Drone." Parameters. 46, no. 1 (2016): 136.

Reynolds, Phil W. "Containing History: How Cold War History Explains US-Russia Relations by Stephen P. Friot." Marine Corps History. 10, no. 1 (2024): 116-117.

Reynolds, Phil W. "Modeling Conflict Between China and the United States: A Game Theoretical Approach for Irregular War and Diplomacy." (2013)

Reynolds, Phil W. and Doowan Lee "The Strategic Offensive Against the CCP.” The Cipher Brief. (2021).

Reynolds, Phil W. "Right and Wronged in International Relations: Evolutionary Ethics, Moral Revolutions, and the Nature of Power Politics by Brian C. Rathbun." Journal of Advanced Military Studies. 15, no. 1 (2024): 227-229.

Reynolds, Phil W. “Coercing North Korea.” Foreign Policy News. (2017).

Reynolds, Phil W. “NATO Forgets All Politics Are Local.” Real Clear Defense. (2018).

Reynolds, Phil W. “A Return to Foreign Aid Realpolitik: The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation.” Foreign Policy News. (2019).

Reynolds, Phil W. “BCT Staff Integration during Disaster Response.” Small Wars Journal. (2013).