McDonald, Jack. “Who are participants in non-military warfare?” In Jonsson, Oscar and Käihkö, Ilmari Eds. A War of Our Time: The Threat and Dynamics of Non-Military Warfare. Forthcoming.
McDonald, Jack. “Strategy and Remote War.” In Farrell, Theo and Galliott, Jai Eds. The Oxford Handbook of Remote War, Oxford University Press, Forthcoming.
McDonald, Jack. “Decapitation, Repression, or Cauterisation? The problem of categorising targeted strikes.” In Jones, David Martin, Schulte, Paul, Ungerer, Carl, Smith, M.L.R., Eds. Handbook of Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Post 9/11, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.
McDonald, Jack. “Autonomous Agents and Command Responsibility” In Gow, James, Dijxhoorn, Ernst, Kerr, Rachel, and Verdirame, Guglielmo. Eds. Routledge Handbook of War, Law and Technology, Routledge, 2019.
McDonald, Jack. “Blind Justice? The Problem of Distinction in Electronic Attacks” In Taddeo, Mariarosaria, Glorioso, Ludovica Eds. Ethics and Policies for Cyber Warfare (Philosophical Studies series), pp. 17-32. Springer, 2017.
Reports
McDonald, Jack (February 2018) “Drones and the European Union: Prospects for a Common Future.” London: Chatham House.
Mumford, Andrew and McDonald, Jack (2014) “Ambiguous Warfare.” Development Concepts & Doctrine Centre.
Gearson, John; Dover, Robert; McDonald, Jack; Ingham, Sarah; Shaw, Andrew and Stephenson, Alexander (2011) "The HERO Review: Harnessing Efficiencies, Rethinking Outcomes: The Future of the Defence Estate" London: The Centre for Defence Studies
Book Reviews
Review of Christopher L. Elliott "High Command: British Military Leadership in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars", International Journal of Military History and Historiography, Vol 37, Issue 1, 2017.
Review of Stephanie Carvin and Michael Williams "Law, Science, Liberalism and the American Way of Warfare: The Quest for Humanity in Conflict", The RUSI Journal, Vol. 160, Issue 2, 2015, pp.99-100
Review of Mark Mazzetti "The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth" and Jeremy Scahill "Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield", The RUSI Journal, Vol. 158, Issue 6, 2013, pp. 103-4.
Other
McDonald, Jack (2010) "Conceptualising post-NATO counternarcotics operations in Afghanistan" World Defence Systems, 2010 – Vol. 2, p. 48
McDonald, Jack (2010) "'Any Victory is Relative' – Narcotics, Conflict and Criminality in Mexico" World Defence Systems, 2010 – Vol. 1, p. 205
McDonald, Jack (2009) "Globalisation and ungoverned space: Risks, threats and state responses" World Defence Systems, 2009 – Vol. 2.