€ 24.99
ISBN: 9781785909481
Bombs rain down on hospitals; special
forces, spies and organised crime gangs work together to stage coups; children are
stolen from occupied Ukrainian territories; Russian soldiers explode dams to
create natural disasters. In the west, the Kremlin's enemies are poisoned,
Russian oligarchs use the English legal system to intimidate authors and
journalists, and Russian intelligence breaks into the servers of US political
parties.
The Russian way of war, with its many
faces, has become a key global discussion point in recent years, sparked by the
devastating invasion of Ukraine and the Kremlin's threat of aggression,
including nuclear conflict, towards the west.
This unique and profoundly researched
book tells the story of how, under President Putin, Russia - with its deep
history of creative thinking about warfare - has combined apparently disparate forms
of conflict into a single, unified concept of 'total war'.
Total War provides a template for how Russia
will continue to wage war - combining traditional, unconventional and
potentially nuclear forms of conflict - against its enemies not just in Ukraine
but in the global west. It reveals how, although Ukraine is for now the main
battleground in the coming global struggle, Russia and other observing
authoritarian states are seeking to destroy the beliefs, subvert the power and
thwart the influence of western democratic nations.
400 pages.
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Date of Publication: 27/02/2025