| The Gulf War 1991 A Finlan Routledge, 2003 | 163 | 2003 |
| The Collapse of Yugoslavia 1991-99 A Finlan Second Edition (Updated and Revised), 2022 | 128 | 2022 |
| Special Forces, Strategy and the War on Terror: Warfare By Other Means A Finlan Routledge, 2009 | 75 | 2009 |
| Contemporary military culture and strategic studies: US and UK armed forces in the 21st Century (HBK) A Finlan Routledge, 2013 | 48 | 2013 |
| Warfare by other means: special forces, terrorism and grand strategy A Finlan Mockaitis, Thomas; Rich, Paul (eds) Grand Strategy in the War Against Terrorism, 2004 | 35 | 2004 |
| 'Warfare By Other Means: Special Forces, Terrorism and Grand Strategy' A Finlan Small Wars and Insurgencies 14 (1), 92-108, 2003 | 35 | 2003 |
| The Royal Navy in the Falklands Conflict and the Gulf War: Culture and Strategy A Finlan Frank Cass, 2004 | 34 | 2004 |
| Trapped in the Dead Ground: US Counter-Insurgency Strategy in Iraq A Finlan Small Wars & Insurgencies 16 (1), 1-21, 2005 | 29 | 2005 |
| Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror: US and UK Armed Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq 2001-2012 A Finlan Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2014 | 27 | 2014 |
| 'A Dangerous Pathway? Toward a Theory of Special Forces' A Finlan Comparative Strategy 38 (4), 255-275, 2019 | 20 | 2019 |
| 'British Special Forces in the Falklands War of 1982' A Finlan Small Wars and Insurgencies 13 (3), 75-96, 2002 | 20 | 2002 |
| 'The (Arrested) Development of UK Special Forces and the Global War on Terror' A Finlan Review of International Studies, 971-982, 2009 | 18 | 2009 |
| International security A Finlan Buckley, Mary; Singh, Robert (eds), The Bush Doctrine and the War on …, 2006 | 16 | 2006 |
| The shape of warfare to come: a Swedish perspective 2020–2045 A Finlan Defense & Security Analysis, 1-20, 2021 | 14 | 2021 |
| Critically engaging the concept of joint operations: origins, reflexivity and the case of Sweden A Finlan, A Danielsson, S Lundqvist Defence Studies 21 (3), 356-374, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |
| The Second World War: A World in Flames A Finlan, M Hastings, M Grove, P Grove, R Hart, S Hart, R Havers, ... Osprey Publishing, 2004 | 12* | 2004 |
| British Special Forces and the Falklands conflict: Twenty years on A Finlan Defense & Security Analysis 18 (4), 319-332, 2002 | 11 | 2002 |
| War Culture: The Royal Navy and the Falklands Conflict A Finlan The Falklands Conflict Twenty Years On, 193-212, 2004 | 5 | 2004 |
| The Collapse of Yugoslavia 1991–1999 F Alastair Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 2004 | 5 | 2004 |
| The Second World War (3): The war at sea A Finlan, MJ Grove, PD Grove Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014 | 3 | 2014 |
