| Enemies Known and Unknown: Targeted Killings in America's Transnational War J McDonald Oxford University Press, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
| Remote warfare and the legitimacy of military capabilities J McDonald Defence Studies 21 (4), 528-544, 2021 | 16 | 2021 |
| Ethics, Law and Justifying Targeted Killings: The Obama Administration at War J McDonald Routledge, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| Drones and the European Union: Prospects for a Common Future J McDonald Chatham House, 2018 | 13 | 2018 |
| Ambiguous Warfare A Mumford, J McDonald Report produced for the DCDC, 2014 | 8 | 2014 |
| The HERO review: harnessing efficiencies, rethinking outcomes: the future of the defence estate J Gearson, R Dover, J McDonald, S Ingham, A Shaw, A Stephenson © Centre for Defence Studies, King's College London; Morgan Sindall, 2011 | 4 | 2011 |
| Decapitation, repression, or cauterization? The problem of targeted killings J McDonald Handbook of Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Post 9/11, 53-64, 2019 | 2 | 2019 |
| Information, Privacy, and Just War Theory J McDonald Ethics & International Affairs 34 (3), 379-400, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
| What Is War For? J McDonald Bristol University Press, 2023 | | 2023 |
| Decapitation, Repression, or Cauterisation? The problem of categorising targeted strikes JNIA McDonald Handbook of Terrorism and Counter Terrorism Post 9/11, 2019 | | 2019 |
| Dirty Wars Literature Search J McDonald | | 2019 |
| Autonomous Agents and Command Responsibility J McDonald Routledge Handbook of War, Law and Technology, 2019 | | 2019 |
| Blind Justice? The Role of Distinction in Electronic Attacks J McDonald Ethics and Policies for Cyber Operations: A NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence …, 2017 | | 2017 |
| Law, Science, Liberalism and the American Way of Warfare: The Quest for Humanity in Conflict J McDonald The RUSI Journal 160 (2), 99-100, 2015 | | 2015 |
| The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth: Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield J McDonald The RUSI Journal 158 (6), 103-104, 2013 | | 2013 |
| The Ethics and Legality of the American Targeted Killing Programme J McDonald King's College London, 2012 | | 2012 |
| WAR, TECHNOLOGY, & INNO-VATION J MCDONALD | | |
