Kirk Ross
Kirk Ross is a doctoral candidate at King’s College, the University of London, where he is examining Boko Haram’s inter-organizational relationships and how they influence the group’s direction. He is the author of The Sky Men: A Parachute Rifle Company’s Story of the Battle of the Bulge and the Jump Across the Rhine (2000). He has reported from Kosovo, Crimea, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Nigeria, and elsewhere. A frequent contributor to the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings, he was the winner of that journal’s 2009 General Prize for “Where Marines Could Be Marines.”