メッツ氏の記事は、 『ワシントン・クォータリー』などの雑誌に掲載されている。, Joint Force Quarterly, The National Interest, and Current History as well as a number of edited books. His major publications include:
To Deter China, Think Big
Not Your Grandfather's Counterinsurgency
How to Think About Counterinsurgency After Afghanistan
The Future of Strategic Leadership
Globalization and American Security After the Coronavirus Crisis
Future Warfare: The Two Dimensional Security Challenge
Why The ISIS Threat Is As Old As Cold War Bunk
Decisionmaking in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM: The Strategic Shift of 2007
Decisionmaking in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM: Removing Saddam Hussein by Force
Unruly Clients: The Trouble with Allies
New Challenges and Old Concepts: Understanding 21st Century Insurgency
Restructuring America’s Ground Forces: Better, Not Bigger
Rethinking Insurgency[link removed]
Strategies for Asymmetric Threats to US National Security
Learning from Iraq: Counterinsurgency in American Strategy[link removed]
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the 21st Century;
Future War/Future Battlespace;
Asymmetry and U.S. Military Strategy;
Armed Conflict in the 21st Century;
"Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq"; ;
La guerre asymétrique et l'avenir de l'Occident;
The Psychology of War;
Mission Creep Dispatch;
Insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan ;
The Civilian Surge Myth
How Obama's Surge Is Like Bush's
Metz is the author of Iraq and the Evolution of American Strategy.
Concepts
Metz has proposed several new concepts for the analysis of military strategy and national security policy:
Psychological precision: the idea that modern militaries should be designed so that their operations attain desired psychological effects rather than simply hitting targets with precision. This concept was discussed in the 2001 "Year in Ideas" essay in the New York Times
Effects based planning for counterinsurgency: the idea that counterinsurgency planning should be determined by an array of psychological effects
Ethical asymmetry: the idea that normative differences between opponents in armed conflict is an important feature of 21st century warfare
Cultural asymmetry and counterinsurgency: the idea that the United States' approach to counterinsurgency support only works in nations with Western or Western-derived cultures
Personal versus strategic motives in insurgency: the idea that insurgencies where strategic motives—those directed toward a desired political outcome—dominate differ in significant ways from ones where personal motives—the desire for revenge, prestige, or material gain—drive most insurgents.
New technological revolution for counterinsurgency: the idea that technology can, to some extent, substitute for labor in counterinsurgency, but not simply through the application of technology developed for conventional warfighting. A technological revolution for counterinsurgency (and other forms of asymmetric and irregular conflict) should be based on robotics (including micro- and nano-robotics), nonlethality, and psychotechnology.
"Metz threshold": counterinsurgency must achieve acceptable performance before political patience runs out, requiring an organizational learning response and the historical U.S. threshold for political patience is three years[1]
Next-gen insurgency: future insurgency, unlike the guerrilla conflicts of past insurgencies, will be networked, swarming, global, and focused on narrative-centric conflict and integrated cost imposition. Social media and the virtual world will be its central battlespaces.
↑Kilcullen, David. Dinosaurs versus Mammals: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Adaptation in Iraq, 2007; An unforgiving environment that punishes error . Rand Insurgency Board Presentation, 8 May 2008.