Peter writes about strategy, leadership, organizational transformation, international development and the lessons that emerge when ideas are tested in the real world.
These articles bring together practical experience, strategic thinking and questions worth exploring further.
Peter’s writing also appears across external publications, academic and professional platforms. Selected pieces are collected here so readers can explore the ideas in their original context.
An essay arguing that DoD global health engagement needs a new framework, one that builds economic resilience in partner countries while advancing U.S. strategic objectives.
A peer-reviewed article on establishing a Pacific Island trauma system to save lives and support national security.
An analysis of food insecurity as a driver of global security, and of the role special operations forces can play in addressing it.
A recurring theme in Peter’s writing is the moment when an established approach stops producing the results an organization needs.
How do leaders recognize that point?
Which assumptions are preventing them from seeing alternatives?
And how can an organization move from incremental improvement toward genuine transformation?
Peter’s international work has placed him alongside leaders, local counterparts and communities facing challenges where theory alone was rarely sufficient.
Some articles begin with those experiences: what happened, what people did and what the outcome revealed about leadership, strategy, institutions or resilience.
Organizations ultimately depend on people making decisions, contributing ideas, developing capabilities and responding when circumstances change.
Peter’s writing explores leadership not simply as a position, but as something demonstrated through decisions, contribution and action.
Peter’s work frequently returns to a simple principle: before rushing toward an answer, make sure you’re asking the right question.
Many difficult organizational problems persist because the assumptions surrounding them remain unquestioned.
Peter’s articles provide space to examine those assumptions more closely — and consider what becomes possible when the question changes.
