Rod Thornton
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Rod Thornton's Degrees
- PhD International Relations University of Nottingham
- Masters War Studies King's College London
- Bachelors Politics University of Nottingham
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rod Thornton is a Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London. He previously taught at the University of Kurdistan Hewler in Erbil, Iraq and in the University of Nottingham's department of Politics and International Relations. He was suspended from the University of Nottingham in spring 2011 after publishing an article critical of the University's handling of the arrest of one of its students. He subsequently left the university by "mutual agreement" with the university.
Rod Thornton's Published Works
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- The British Army and the Origins of its Minimum Force Philosophy (2004) (60)
- Getting it Wrong: The Crucial Mistakes Made in the Early Stages of the British Army's Deployment to Northern Ireland (August 1969 to March 1972) (2007) (45)
- The Changing Nature of Modern Warfare (2015) (43)
- Asymmetric warfare : threat and response in the twenty-first century (2007) (38)
- ‘Minimum Force’: a reply to Huw Bennett (2009) (25)
- Problems with the Kurds as proxies against Islamic State: insights from the siege of Kobane (2015) (19)
- Military Modernization and the Russian Ground Forces (2011) (18)
- Counterterrorism and the neo-liberal university: providing a check and balance? (2011) (17)
- The role of peace support operations doctrine in the British Army (2000) (16)
- The Russian Threat to the Baltic States: The Problems of Shaping Local Defense Mechanisms (2016) (14)
- Towards the ‘Third Revolution in Military Affairs’ (2020) (12)
- The Russian Military’s New ‘Main Emphasis’ (2017) (10)
- Organizational Change in the Russian Airborne Forces: The Lessons of the Georgian Conflict (2012) (8)
- A welcome ‘revolution'? The British Army and the changes of the strategic defence review (2003) (8)
- Russian Military Modernization (2012) (7)
- Countering Prompt Global Strike: The Russian Military Presence in Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean and Its Strategic Deterrence Role (2019) (5)
- Cultural barriers to organisational unlearning: The US army, the ‘zero‐defects’ culture and operations in the post‐cold war world (2000) (5)
- Network Centric Operations (NCO) Case Study. The British Approach to Low-Intensity Operations: Part 2 (2007) (4)
- Countering Arab Insurgencies: The British Experience (2007) (4)
- Deterring Russian cyber warfare: the practical, legal and ethical constraints faced by the United Kingdom (2019) (4)
- Military Organizations and Change: The “Professionalization” of the 76th Airborne Division (2004) (4)
- Dimensions of Counter-insurgency: Applying Experience to Practice (2008) (3)
- ‘There Is No One Left to Draft’: The Strategic and Political Consequences of Russian Attempts to End Conscription (2013) (3)
- The Russian Military Commitment in Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean (2018) (3)
- Fourth generation: A ‘new’ form of ‘warfare’? (2005) (2)
- A Bear with Teeth? (2008) (2)
- Environmental Factors in Helicopter Operations (1984) (2)
- Helicopter Accident Survivability (1984) (2)
- Emerging as the ‘Victor’(?): Syria and Russia’s Grand and Military Strategies (2021) (1)
- Book reviews (2003) (0)
- Afghanistan: A War Zone Revisited (2009) (0)
- Conclusion: The Way Forward (2007) (0)
- Reviews (2007) (0)
- Aviation Medicine and the Army (1984) (0)
- An Evaluation of the Bird/Aircraft Strike Hazard Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, (1977) (0)
- A Geographic Database for the Environmental Analysis of the Santa Ana River Corridor (2006) (0)
- A Considered Response (Asymmetric Warfare) (2004) (0)
- Abstracts (2003) (0)
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