Lawrence Freedman
Person on 3 sites
Emeritus professor of war studies at King's College London; wrote Strategy: A History and Command, and writes about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as they happen.
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Bluesky: @ldfreedman.bsky.social (opens bsky.app)
“After the inconclusive Israeli elections and before the US midterms, this post looks at the role the Iran War played in both elections. Israelis backed the war; Americans didn’t. Now Netanyahu wants another iteration.…”
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Newsletter: Comment is Freed (opens samf.substack.com)
“The politics of war”
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Bluesky: @ldfreedman.bsky.social (opens bsky.app)
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14 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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When AI-assisted targeting goes wrong the failure lies in the strategic concept it is serving, not in the technology. (opens korrents.com)
“The problem again was not reliance upon AI but that it was supporting a model of warfare with which the United States had been working for some decades, one that prioritized the rapid elimination of enemy capabilities.”
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Better battlefield information pushes commanders towards the strategies that can exploit that clarity, even when those are not the strategies that meet the political objective. (opens korrents.com)
“The greater the confidence in a clear view of the battlespace, the greater the reliance on military strategies that could benefit from that clarity, even though they might not be the best ones to meet political…”
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The scale of civilian deaths in Gaza followed from Israeli leaders' strategic choices, not from the AI used to pick the targets. (opens korrents.com)
“The high levels of Palestinian civilian casualties reflected the strategic choices made by the Israeli leadership.”
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When AI-assisted targeting goes wrong the failure lies in the strategic concept it is serving, not in the technology. (opens korrents.com)
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1 recommendation on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States (opens rcmnd.app)
“Lawrence: First congratulations on your new book, which is, as expected, extremely interesting and timely.”
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The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States (opens rcmnd.app)