The Next World War: The new age of global conflict and the fight to stop it

Incredibly well sourced … One of the most plugged-in voices in modern warfare.

* Telegraph *Reads like a real-life geopolitical thriller … The fact it doesn’t feel like scaremongering says a lot about the state of the world. * JONN ELLEDGE, author of A History of the World in 47 Borders *Blends vivid reporting with shrewd analysis. * Economist *Gripping and important … A warning order for the future. * GENERAL SIR TIM RADFORD KCB DSO OBE *Sweeping and compelling, with plenty of human stories that really pull you in. A must-read book from the expert I go to when I really want to get a sense of where things might be going. * ANNA-JOY RICKARD, Great British Foreign Affairs podcast *Truly excellent … a gripping tour de force. Every politician and military expert needs to read this book. * IAIN DALE *Comprehensive and detailed … the detail is remarkable. * Irish Times *A timely and unsettling exploration of the shifting dynamics of global power, the resurgence of large-scale warfare, and the general state of international security in the 21st Century. Drawing on both his background as a journalist and extensive firsthand reporting, The Next World War is Peter Apps’s at his best. Compelling, engaging, and excellent. In many ways The Next World War is a history of the future. * Wavell Room *

Peter Apps is global defence commentator at Reuters, a British Army reservist and executive director of pop-up think tank the Project for Study of the 21st Century (PS21). Peter has reported from across the world as a Reuters correspondent and was appointed a columnist in 2016. He has also served in the British Army as a specialist reservist, and presents the international defence podcast Facing Coming Storms for the British Army think tank The Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research (CHACR).

He is the author of Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO (Wildfire, 2024) and two successful Kindle Singles, Before Ebola (2014) and Churchill in the Trenches (2015).