Myke has written 15 pieces for Slate Magazine since 2021. You can see a complete inventory of them here.
The most recent piece is Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Is Historically Accurate in the Way That Counts the Most(Slate, July 2026)
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Non-Fiction (Books)
Steel Lobsters: Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights in England
(Osprey/Bloomsbury, 2024)
The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae (with Michael Livingston)
(Osprey/Bloomsbury, 2024)
The Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy
(Osprey/Bloomsbury, 2022)
Legion Versus Phalanx: The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World
(Osprey/Bloomsbury, 2017)
Selected Online Short Work
The fires consuming Los Angeles are just the beginning
(The Hill, January 2025)
Millennia After Leonidas Made His Last Stand at Thermopylae, a Ragtag Band of Saboteurs Thwarted the Axis Powers in the Same Narrow Pass (with Michael Livingston)
(Smithsonian Magazine, February 2024)
Sparta Was Much More Than an Army of Super Warriors
(Smithsonian Magazine, October 2021)
America’s Police Prepared for the Wrong Enemy
(Foreign Policy, May 2020)
Congress Must Pass the Living Artists Act
(The New York Times, March 2020)
The Sparta Fetish is a Cultural Cancer
(The New Republic, August 2019)
How the Far Right Perverts Ancient History - And Why it Matters
(The Daily Beast, March 2019)
Novels
Sixteenth Watch
(Angry Robot/Watkins, 2020)
The Killing Light
(Tor/Macmillan, 2019)
The Queen of Crows
(Tor/Macmillan, 2018)
The Armored Saint
(Tor/Macmillan, 2018)
Siege Line
(Ace/Penguin, 2017)
Javelin Rain
(Ace/Penguin, 2016)
Gemini Cell
(Ace/Penguin, 2015)
Breach Zone
(Ace/Penguin, 2014)
Fortress Frontier
(Ace/Penguin, 2013)
Control Point
(Ace/Penguin, 2012)
Selected Offline Short Work
Not the One you are Probably Thinking of . . . The Battle of Thermopylae (with Michael Livingston)
(Ancient Warfare, 2024)
Arrows and Bronze: The Decline of Hoplite Armor
(Ancient Warfare, 2023)
End of the Antigonid Empire: 168 BC - Finding Pydna (with Michael Livingston)
(Ancient Warfare, 2020)
Should Law Enforcement Use Surveillance?(with Hamid Khan and Ken Montenegro)
(McSweeney’s, 2018)
Finding Cynoscephalae - 197 BC: Sources to Results(with Michael Livingston)
(Ancient Warfare, 2016)
The Paullus Monument and the Battle of Pydna: All Source Analysis(with Michael Livingston)
(Ancient Warfare, 2016)
Weapons in the Earth
(Operation: Arcana, 2015)
Setting the Record Straight (et al.)
(Writer’s Digest, 2015)
Art Imitates War: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(Beyond the Wall: Exploring George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, 2012)
A Place for Heroes
(Weird Tales, 2012)
Shouting Down the Moon
(The Best of All Flesh, 2009)
The Analyst’s Toolbox
(Journal of Counterterrorism and Homeland Security International, 2006)
The Taxonomic Obsession: Profiling as a 4GW Tactical Error
(On Point: Counterrorism Journal, 2006)
Confronting the 4th Generation Enemy
(Journal of Counterterrorism and Homeland Security International, 2005)
Meet the New War, Same as the Old War: Could 5GW Come Full Circle?
(On Point: Counterterrorism Journal, 2005)
Comic Book Warning: An Unlikely Insight into Warfare’s 5th Generation
(Small Wars Journal, 2005)
Blood and Horses
(Writers of the Future Vol. XIX, 2003)
Television
As a historian, Myke appeared on History's Deadliest with Ving Rhames and History's Greatest Warriors (both on the History Channel, 2026), and on Pyrrhus of Epirus (Little Wars TV, 2021). You can watch highlights here:
As an intelligence officer and investigator, Myke starred in Contact (Discovery, 2019) and Hunted (CBS, 2017). You can see clips of those appearances here:
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