Rod Thornton is a Professor at King's College London and currently based at the Joann bin Jassim Joint Command and Staff College, Al Wakrah, Qatar. With a BA degree in Russian, Thornton has written widely on the Russian military. He has lived and worked in both Kiev and Moscow and is the author of Asymmetric Warfare: Threat and Response in the 21st Century (Polity Press, 2007).
