Brig Gen Thomas Drohan, USAF (Ret.), is a Mitchell Institute non-resident fellow and professor emeritus, US Air Force Academy. Following his military retirement, he served as Dean of the National Defense College, United Arab Emirates, then Director of the International Center for Security and Leadership, Colorado Springs, Colorado. His 38-year Air Force career blended command and staff assignments in combat rescue, tactical airlift, anti-terrorism and force protection, air and missile defense, international security assistance, and military and strategic studies.

Tom served as a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow in Japan, Advisor at the National Military Academy of Afghanistan, and Visiting Scholar at the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies—Johns Hopkins SAIS. His publications include three books on strategy, defense-related articles and book chapters, and research on airpower, combined effects, concepts of influence, and narrative warfare. He received his Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, M.A. in Political Science from the University of Hawaii, and B.S. in National Security Studies from the US Air Force Academy.