Bob Seely

Dr Robert (Bob) Seely is a former soldier, journalist and Member of Parliament. As a young foreign correspondent, he witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union. 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. As a Member of Parliament from 2017 to 2024, he warned of the growing Russian threat to peace. Dr Seely has long been fascinated by the fusion of different forms of conflict, trying to understand them from informational, military and political angles. He devoted a decade of academic study to Russian warfare for his PhD from King’s College, London. The New Total War is the result of over thirty years of expertise in Russia, Ukraine and modern warfare.