Colonel Richard Kemp was former Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan, and has spent most of his career fighting terrorism and insurgency in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Iraq and elsewhere. Later in his career he was a member of Cobra, the UK government’s top-level crisis management committee, chairing  the Cobra Intelligence Group, responsible for coordinating the work of the national intelligence agencies, including MI5 and MI6. During this time the crises he managed included the July 2005 London bombings, and the Madrid and Bali attacks. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen for intelligence work in Northern Ireland where he completed eight tours of duty. He is a world expert, and has written extensively on, warfighting, including that involving Israel and the Middle East conflict.