| The Dictator's Army: Battlefield Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes C Talmadge Cornell University Press, 2015 | 321 | 2015 |
| Closing time: Assessing the Iranian threat to the Strait of Hormuz C Talmadge International Security 33 (1), 82-117, 2008 | 215 | 2008 |
| Would China go nuclear? Assessing the risk of Chinese nuclear escalation in a conventional war with the United States C Talmadge International Security 41 (4), 50-92, 2017 | 160 | 2017 |
| US defense politics: The origins of security policy HM Sapolsky, E Gholz, C Talmadge Routledge, 2008 | 128 | 2008 |
| When war helps civil–military relations: Prolonged interstate conflict and the reduced risk of coups V Piplani, C Talmadge Journal of Conflict Resolution 60 (8), 1368-1394, 2016 | 96 | 2016 |
| Emerging technologies and strategic stability in peacetime, crisis, and war TS Sechser, N Narang, C Talmadge Journal of strategic studies 42 (6), 727-735, 2019 | 86 | 2019 |
| Emerging technology and intra-war escalation risks: Evidence from the Cold War, implications for today C Talmadge Emerging Technologies and International Stability, 169-192, 2021 | 74 | 2021 |
| The puzzle of personalist performance: Iraqi battlefield effectiveness in the Iran-Iraq war C Talmadge Security Studies 22 (2), 180-221, 2013 | 70 | 2013 |
| Civil-military pathologies and defeat in war: Tests using new data V Narang, C Talmadge Journal of Conflict Resolution 62 (7), 1379-1405, 2018 | 58 | 2018 |
| Deterring a nuclear 9/11 C Talmadge Washington Quarterly 30 (2), 21-34, 2007 | 58 | 2007 |
| Hegemony, force posture, and the provision of public goods: The once and future role of outside powers in securing Persian Gulf oil J Rovner, C Talmadge Security Studies 23 (3), 548-581, 2014 | 50 | 2014 |
| Different threats, different militaries: explaining organizational practices in authoritarian armies C Talmadge Security Studies 25 (1), 111-141, 2016 | 35 | 2016 |
| Beijing’s nuclear option C Talmadge Foreign affairs 97 (6), 44-51, 2018 | 26 | 2018 |
| Costs and difficulties of blocking the Strait of Hormuz WD O'Neil, C Talmadge International security 33 (3), 190-198, 2008 | 17 | 2008 |
| Then what? Assessing the military implications of Chinese control of Taiwan BR Green, C Talmadge International Security 47 (1), 7-45, 2022 | 16 | 2022 |
| Why China wants more and better nukes A Denmark, C Talmadge Foreign Affairs, 169, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
| The US-China nuclear relationship: why competition is likely to intensify C Talmadge Global China: Assessing China's Growing Role in the World, 1-14, 2019 | 12 | 2019 |
| Why the Iraqi army collapsed (and what can be done about it) K Fraiman, A Long, C Talmadge M. Lynch. Iraq Between Maliki and the Islamic State, 2014 | 11 | 2014 |
| The consequences of conquest: Why Indo-Pacific power hinges on Taiwan BR Green, C Talmadge Foreign Aff. 101, 97, 2022 | 10 | 2022 |
| China and Nuclear Weapons C Talmadge Brookings Institution, September 7, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
