The New Total War
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The New Total War

From Child Abduction to Cyber Attacks and Drones to Disinformation – Russia's Conflict with Ukraine and the West

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The New Total War

From Child Abduction to Cyber Attacks and Drones to Disinformation – Russia's Conflict with Ukraine and the West

About this book

From the revolutionary use of drones to staged coups, child abduction and psychological warfare, the war in Ukraine is like no other. It is a new form of total war, combining traditional military force with all the non-military tools of the Russian state. The 2022 invasion was just the next stage of a conflict that Russia has been fighting since 2005, using all the tactics at its disposal to control Ukraine's politics and wreak havoc.

Combining over a decade of research, astute analysis and powerful stories from the front line, and including striking photographs of the people and scenes he encountered along the way, Bob Seely has written the authoritative guide to this new form of conflict. Travelling extensively throughout Ukraine, Seely meets figures such as Panoushka, the sniper who continues to fight despite the loss of her fiancé, and Ksenia, the seventeen-year-old who journeyed through Russia searching for her abducted younger brother. Above all, Seely argues that understanding Moscow's new total war is critical because Russia considers itself at war with the West as well as Ukraine, directing some of the tactics used there against us.

Insightful, gripping and at times moving, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the unconventional methods Russia and other authoritarian states will use to challenge the West for global supremacy and undermine our beliefs, power and influence.

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Table of contents

  1. Praise
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Chapter 1: Koleso, Khartiia and the New Total War
  5. Chapter 2: Reinventing Conflict: What is War?
  6. Chapter 3: Stories from the Front: The Dragon Sky Drone School
  7. Chapter 4: Reinventing Russian Strategy: The Search for a Single Truth
  8. Chapter 5: Stories from the Front: Panoushka the Widow Sniper
  9. Chapter 6: Reinventing Threat: Reimagining the West as the Enemy
  10. Chapter 7: Stories from the Front: Sarmat, the Eastern Front and Russian Prisoners of War
  11. Chapter 8: Inventing Russia’s New Way of War: Characteristics, Tactics and Tools
  12. Chapter 9: Stories from the Front: The Surgeons of Kharkiv and the Shahed Hunters of Odesa
  13. Chapter 10: Reinventing Unity: Merging Two Ways of War into One
  14. Chapter 11: Stories from the Front: The Child Stealers of Belgorod
  15. Chapter 12: The Ukraine Conflict Stages One and Two: 2005 to 2014, the Long Conflict and the First Invasion
  16. Chapter 13: The Ukraine Conflict Stage Three: 2014 to 2022, the Second Invasion
  17. Chapter 14: Stories from the Front: Khartiia’s Frontline Robots and Achilles’s Cottage Industry
  18. Chapter 15: Reinventing Blame: Who Lost Russia?
  19. Chapter 16: What is To Be Done?
  20. Epilogue: Will Putin Use Nuclear Weapons?
  21. Select Bibliography
  22. Acknowledgements
  23. Index
  24. Plates
  25. Copyright