| Drug cartels, street gangs, and warlords JP Sullivan, RJ Bunker Small Wars and Insurgencies 13 (2), 40-53, 2002 | 166 | 2002 |
| Terrorist and insurgent unmanned aerial vehicles: Use, potentials, and military implications RJ Bunker Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 2015 | 101 | 2015 |
| Maras morphing: Revisiting third generation gangs JP Sullivan Global crime 7 (3-4), 487-504, 2006 | 95 | 2006 |
| Cartel evolution revisited: Third phase cartel potentials and alternative futures in Mexico RJ Bunker, JP Sullivan Narcos Over the Border, 30-54, 2019 | 92 | 2019 |
| Torture, beheadings, and narcocultos PL Bunker, LJ Campbell, RJ Bunker Narcos Over the Border, 145-178, 2019 | 88 | 2019 |
| Sureños gangs and Mexican cartel use of social networking sites S Womer, RJ Bunker Small Wars & Insurgencies 21 (1), 81-94, 2010 | 87 | 2010 |
| Networks, terrorism and global insurgency RJ Bunker Routledge, 2006 | 82* | 2006 |
| Rethinking insurgency: Criminality, spirituality, and societal warfare in the Americas JP Sullivan, RJ Bunker Criminal Insurgencies in Mexico and the Americas, 29-50, 2013 | 78 | 2013 |
| Cartel evolution: Potentials and consequences RJ Bunker, JP Sullivan Transnational Organized Crime 4 (2), 55-74, 1998 | 61 | 1998 |
| Introduction: the Mexican cartels—organized crime vs. criminal insurgency RJ Bunker Trends in Organized Crime 16 (2), 129-137, 2013 | 57 | 2013 |
| Strategic threat: narcos and narcotics overview RJ Bunker Narcos Over the Border, 8-29, 2019 | 54 | 2019 |
| Non-state threats and future wars RJ Bunker Routledge, 2012 | 47 | 2012 |
| Nonlethal weapons terms and references RJ Bunker US Air Force Academy, CO: INSS, 1997 | 47 | 1997 |
| Epochal change: war over social and political organization RJ Bunker The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters 27 (2), 1, 1997 | 45 | 1997 |
| Five-dimensional (cyber) Warfighting: Can the Army After Next be Defeated Through Complex Concepts and Technologies? RJ Bunker Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 1998 | 43 | 1998 |
| Third generation gang studies: An introduction JP Sullivan, RJ Bunker | 41 | 2007 |
| Generations, Waves, and Epochs: Modes of Warfare and the RPMA RJ Bunker Air Power Journal, 1996 | 39 | 1996 |
| The transition to fourth epoch war RJ Bunker | 37 | 1994 |
| Multilateral counter-insurgency networks JP Sullivan, RJ Bunker Networks, terrorism and global insurgency, 183-198, 2014 | 34 | 2014 |
| Integrating feral cities and third phase cartels/third generation gangs research: the rise of criminal (narco) city networks and BlackFor RJ Bunker, JP Sullivan Small Wars & Insurgencies 22 (5), 764-786, 2011 | 34 | 2011 |
