Timothy L. Thomas
Foreign Military Studies Office, Joint Reserve Intelligence Center
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Mr. Thomas is a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel. He received a B.S. degree from West Point and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Southern California. He was a US Army Foreign Area Officer who specialized in Soviet/Russian studies. His military assignments included serving as the Director of Soviet Studies at the United States Army Russian Institute (USARI) in Garmisch, Germany; as an inspector of Soviet tactical operations; and as a Brigade S-2 and company commander in the 82nd Airborne Division. Mr. Thomas has done extensive research and publishing in the areas of peacekeeping, information war, psychological operations, and low intensity conflict and political-military affairs.
He is an adjunct professor at the Us Army’s Eurasian Institute; an adjunct lecturer at the USAF Special Operations School; and a member of three Russian organizations, the Academy of International Information, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the Academy on Problems of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement. He is the author of several publications on Information Warfare including “Decoding the Virtual Dragon: Critical Evolutions in the Science and Philosophy of China’s Information Operations and Military Strategy” and “Dragon Bytes: Chinese Information-War Theory and Practice.”