In 1993, he joined the faculty of the US Naval Postgraduate School, where he has since taught courses in national security affairs and defense analysis, while keeping his post at Rand till 2003.
[1] Arquilla worked as a consultant to General Norman Schwarzkopf during Operation Desert Storm (1991), as part of a group of RAND analysts assigned to him.
[citation needed] Arquilla has contributed op-eds to journals and publications such as The New York Times, Forbes, Foreign Policy magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Wired and The New Republic.
Arquilla's arguments for the US to use cyber war as an instrument of conflict prevention in areas such as South Asia, as described in a 2009 Wired article,[3] have earned him criticism from Pakistani writers and web journals, such as TechLahore.
[4] Arquilla supports preemptive war and NSA wiretapping as antiterrorist methods: "the fact that preemption can only function on the basis of accurate insight should make the case for governments around the world to continue to amass and employ big data to search out the small cells that bedevil our era".