| World gone cyber MAD: How “mutually assured debilitation” is the best hope for cyber deterrence MD Crosston Strategic studies quarterly 5 (1), 100-116, 2011 | 71 | 2011 |
| Fostering fundamentalism: terrorism, democracy and American engagement in Central Asia M Crosston Routledge, 2016 | 58 | 2016 |
| Terra incognita: Mapping American intelligence education curriculum S Coulthart, M Crosston Journal of Strategic Security 8 (3), 46-68, 2015 | 37 | 2015 |
| Cold War and Ayatollah residues: Syria as a chessboard for Russia, Iran, and the United States MD Crosston Strategic Studies Quarterly 8 (4), 94-111, 2014 | 32 | 2014 |
| Shadow separatism: implications for democratic consolidation M Crosston Routledge, 2019 | 22 | 2019 |
| Bringing non-Western cultures and conditions into comparative intelligence perspectives: India, Russia, and China M Crosston International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 29 (1), 110-131, 2016 | 16 | 2016 |
| Pandora’s presumption: Drones and the problematic ethics of techno-war M Crosston Journal of Strategic Security 7 (4), 1-24, 2014 | 16 | 2014 |
| Mutating power: tracking the changes in authority of the sub-regional communist party nomenclature during late-stage soviet and post-soviet socialism (1985-2005) DG Seltser, MD Crosston Вестник Тамбовского государственного технического университета 11 (2), 578-589, 2005 | 16 | 2005 |
| Occam’s follies: real and imagined biases facing intelligence studies M Crosston Journal of Strategic Security 6 (3), 40-53, 2013 | 14 | 2013 |
| An Intelligence Civil War:„HUMINT” vs.„TECHINT” M Crosston, F Valli Cyber, Intelligence, and Security 1 (1), 67-82, 2017 | 13 | 2017 |
| Phreak the speak: the flawed communications within cyber intelligentsia M Crosston Cyberspace and International Relations: Theory, Prospects and Challenges …, 2013 | 12 | 2013 |
| Virtual patriots and a new American cyber strategy: changing the zero-sum game M Crosston Strategic Studies Quarterly 6 (4), 100-118, 2012 | 12 | 2012 |
| Fragile friendships: Partnerships between the academy and intelligence MD Crosston international Journal of intelligence and Counterintelligence 31 (1), 139-158, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| Cyber colonization: The dangerous fusion of artificial intelligence and authoritarian regimes M Crosston Cyber, Intelligence, and Security Journal 4 (1), 149-171, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
| Compromising coalitions and duplicitous diplomacy: US support for Tajikistan after 9/11 and its security implications M Crosston Central Asian Survey 27 (2), 155-167, 2008 | 9 | 2008 |
| Cultures, conditions, and cognitive closure: Breaking intelligence studies’ dependence on security studies M Crosston Journal of Strategic Security 8 (3), 24-45, 2015 | 8 | 2015 |
| Washing away power: local CPSU nomenclature during the late and post-Soviet period (1985-2015) M Crosston, D Seltser PRO NUNC. Современные политические процессы, 24-37, 2015 | 8 | 2015 |
| Neoconservative democratization in theory and practice: Developing democrats or raising radical Islamists? M Crosston International Politics 46, 298-326, 2009 | 8 | 2009 |
| The pluto of international organizations: Micro-Agendas, IO theory, and dismissing the Shanghai Cooperation Organization M Crosston Comparative Strategy 32 (3), 283-294, 2013 | 7 | 2013 |
| The cascade effect: Local power from old Soviets to new Russians (1985-2015) M Crosston, D Seltser The Caspian Project, 43-54, 2015 | 6 | 2015 |
