in Military Affairs. In 1995, Lawrence Korb wrote an article in the magazine Foreign Affairs, titled Our Overstuffed Armed Forces questioning the need for and scale of US defense spending by comparing American defense spending to that of other nations. Toti reacted to this article by writing a rebuttal which was published in The Washington Times entitled What Does Brookings Know About Defense? The article advanced the idea that because of the need of American armed forces to cross two vast oceans surrounding the United States to bring the fight to the enemy, any comparison of what the United States spends relative to spending by other nations that do not have to cross those oceans, is specious. Toti's article was countered by a strong rebuttal on March 19, 1996, also in The Washington Times, written Michael O'Hanlon and Korb, then both senior fellows at Brookings. Toti authored other articles on the revolution in military affairs during that decade, including a piece titled Stop the Revolution I want to Get Off, which earned him the United States Naval Institute's Author of the Year award in 2000. Toti also wrote the foreword and afterword of a book on the history of the cruiser , titled Ordeal by Sea by Thomas Helm and published by Penguin Books. In 2022 he released his first book, titled "From CO to CEO: A Practical Guide for Transitioning from Military to Industry Leadership," published by Forefront Books and distributed by Simon & Schuster. According to the introduction of the book, his stated purpose for writing the book is that, over the course of his fifteen years in industry, he saw veterans who left the military and transitioned to industry make the same mistakes over and over again. Toti says in the opening of the book that he believes the military's transition training is defective and actually creates problems for transitioning veterans, and his intent is to teach veterans how things really work in industry so they can reduce their level of stress in transition. Photographer In addition, beginning in 2013, Toti began to achieve recognition as a landscape photographer. His photos have been published in Landscape Photographer, Destinations, and N-Photo magazines. He was featured in Nikon Asia magazine, in an article titled Transcending Appeal. In 2015, Toti published a book of photographs, Safari: Images of African , and his photograph of Tunnel View at Yosemite was published