Dr. Bob Seely has been a soldier, foreign correspondent and Member of Parliament.His book, The New Total War, out in July, looks at the development of a new Russian theory of war.As a young foreign correspondent, he witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union, reporting from throughout that country as it broke up. He first warned of a revanchist Russia in the mid-1990s and has researched and written about it extensively since then.As a British soldier, he served on the Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and ISIS campaigns, where he witnessed the changing nature of war at first hand. He was decorated with a Military MBE for his operational tours by the late Queen, Elizabeth II.As a Member of Parliament from 2017 to 2024, he warned of the growing threat to peace and the changing nature of threats, not only from Russia, but also China.Dr. Seely has long been fascinated by the fusion of different forms of conflict, trying to understand them from informational, military, academic and political angles. He devoted a decade of study to Russian warfare for his PhD from the famous War Studies Department at King’s College, London.