Ofer Fridman holds the degrees of BA (Military History and Security Studies) from Hebrew University, MA (Counter–Terror and Homeland Security) from Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and PhD (Political Science, supervised by Prof. Beatrice Heuser) from University of Reading. He is a Sessional Lecture at the University of Reading and was a Visiting Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in 2014. Ofer joined the War Studies Department at King’s to conduct a research project that focuses on the politicisation of ‘Hybrid Warfare’. During his visit of Moscow to conduct a quantitative research of Russian military research publications “MGIMO Review of International Relations” took the following interview from him.
Key words: hybrid warfare, military strategy, military culture. assymentric conflicts.
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