Peter Apps

Peter Apps is a British journalist, author and defence analyst. He is the founder and executive director of the PS21 international non-partisan think tank and a Reuters global affairs columnist. He has reported from conflict zones around the world and specialises in geopolitics, defence and international security. Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO traces the history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation from its founding in 1949 through the Cold War, the War on Terror and the challenges of the twenty-first century, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Apps writes the biography of the alliance as if it were a living entity, examining how NATO has adapted, struggled and survived across decades of geopolitical upheaval. Available as both a book and an audiobook, Deterring Armageddon offers essential listening and reading for anyone interested in defence, geopolitics and the alliance that has shaped the security architecture of the Western world for over seventy-five years.