Speller, Ian (2020) “Neither Fish nor Fowl nor Yet Good Red Herring”—Joint Institutions, Single-Service Priorities, and Amphibious Capabilities in Postwar Britain. Naval War College Review, 73 (4). p. 7. ISSN 0028-1484
Speller, Ian (2019) Command And Control In Amphibious Operations: the Lessons of History. Revista da Escola de Guerra Naval (Journal of the Brazilian Naval War College), 25 (3). pp. 561-586. ISSN 2359-3075
Speller, Ian (2011) Hit hard, move fast and sustain action’ The Replacement of the Royal Navy's Amphibious Warfare Squadron and the Rationale for HMS Fearless and HMS Intrepid. Mariner’s Mirror, 97 (3). pp. 177-200. ISSN 0025-3359
Speller, Ian (2010) Inter-service rivalry: British defence policy, 1956-1968. Series III: Reforming Defence - Learning lessons from past Defence Reviews, Series 3.
Speller, Ian (2008) Corbett, Liddell Hart and the ‘British Way in Warfare’ in the 1960s. Defence Studies, 8 (2). pp. 227-239. ISSN 1470-2436
Speller, Ian (2007) 'Hell has many different names': The raids on St. Nazaire and Dieppe, 1942. Everyone's War, 16. pp. 1-12.
Speller, Ian (2007) An African Cuba? Britain and the Zanzibar Revolution, 1964. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 35 (2). pp. 1-35.
Speller, Ian (2006) The Seaborne/Airborne Concept: Littoral Manoeuvre in the 1960s? Journal of Strategic Studies, 29 (1). pp. 1-44.
Speller, Ian (2006) The seaborne/airborne concept: Littoral Manoeuvre in the 1960s? Journal of Strategic Studies, 29 (1). pp. 53-82. ISSN 0140-2390
Speller, Ian (2003) A Splutter of Musketry? The British military response to the Anglo-Iranian oil dispute, 1951. Contemporary British History, 17 (1). pp. 1-46.
Speller, Ian (2002) Amphibious Renaissance The Royal Navy and the Royal Marines, 1956-1966. The International Journal of Naval History, April. ISSN 1932-6556
Speller, Ian (2002) Delayed Reaction: UK Maritime Expeditionary Capabilities and the Lessons of the Falklands Conflict. Defense and Security Analysis, 18 (4). pp. 1-16.
McCabe, Robert, Sanders, Deborah and Speller, Ian (2019) Europe, Small Navies and Maritime Security: Balancing Traditional Roles and Emergent Threats in the 21st Century. In: Europe, Small Navies and Maritime Security: Balancing Traditional Roles and Emergent Threats in the 21st Century. Routledge, pp. 91-93.
Speller, Ian (2012) The use and abuse of history by the military. In: Building a Better Future. Contributions by the Irish Defence Forces. MACE Publications, Maynooth, pp. 1-16.
Speller, Ian (2009) The war at sea in the age of Napoleon and the development of maritime strategy. In: A Guerra No Tempo De Napoleáo: antecedentes, campanhas militares e impactos de longa duracáo. Acta / International Commission of Military History (35). DPI Cromotipo, Lisbon, pp. 387-398. ISBN 9789899594647
Speller, Ian (2012) Maritime Strategy and policy for smaller navies. In: International Studies Association, 1-4 April, 2012, San Diego Conference, USA.
Speller, Ian (2001) Gallipoli Symposium. In: In the shadow of Gallipoli? Amphibious capabilities in the inter-war period, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies.