Lawrence Freedman

Sir Lawrence Freedman
Freedman in 2013
Born1948 (age 75–76)
England
EducationWhitley Bay Grammar School
Alma materUniversity of Manchester (BA), University of York (BPhil), University of Oxford (DPhil)
Occupation(s)Academic, historian and author
SpouseJudith Freedman

Sir Lawrence David Freedman, KCMG, CBE, PC, FBA (born 1948) is a British academic, historian and author specialising in foreign policy, international relations and strategy.[1] He has been described as the "dean of British strategic studies"[2] and was a member of the Iraq Inquiry.[3] He is an Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London.

Life

Freedman, who is of Jewish heritage, was educated at Whitley Bay Grammar School, the University of Manchester (BA), University of York (BPhil), and University of Oxford, where he was a student of Nuffield College (Fellow 1974–75) and the Faculty of Social Studies.[4] [3] His DPhil thesis, submitted in 1975, was The definition of the Soviet threat in strategic arms decisions of the United States: 1961–1974.[5] He also then held a part-time lectureship at Balliol College.[6]

Career

Freedman held positions at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) before he was appointed, in 1982, Professor of War Studies at King's College London. He was head of the department until 1997. In 2000, he was the first head of the college's School of Social Science and Public Policy. From 2003 to December 2013, he was a Vice Principal at King's College London. He retired from King's in December 2014. He was appointed a Fellow of the college in 1992. He was appointed a visiting professor at the University of Oxford in the Blavatnik School of Government in 2015.[7]

Freedman helped to prepare the 1999 Chicago speech in which Tony Blair set out the 'Blair doctrine'.[8][9]

Freedman was the official historian of the Falklands campaign, and author of The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, published in two volumes (London: Routledge, 2006).[10]

Freedman's principal areas of interest include contemporary defence and foreign policy issues.[11] He has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the cold war, as well as commentating regularly on contemporary security issues, and provides book reviews for Foreign Affairs.[12] His recent books include an Adelphi Paper on The Revolution in Strategic Affairs, an edited book on Strategic Coercion, an illustrated book on the Cold War, a collection of essays on British defence policy, and Kennedy's Wars that covers the major crises of the early 1960s over Berlin, Cuba, and Vietnam. Kennedy's Wars was a Silver Medal Winner of the Arthur Ross Prize, awarded by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.[13] In addition, a book on deterrence was published in 2004.[14] A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East (New York: PublicAffairs, 2008), won the 2009 Lionel Gelber Prize and the 2009 Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature. Strategy: A History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013) was named as one of the best books of 2013 by the Financial Times[15] and was awarded the W J McKenzie Book Prize by the Political Studies Association.[16]

Honours and awards

Freedman was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1996[17] and Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George in 2003.[18][19]

In January 2006, he was awarded the Chesney Gold Medal by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) to mark a lifelong distinguished contribution in the defence and international security fields. His citation read:

Under his supervision, generations of students, as well as officers in Her Majesty's Forces learnt about the changing nature of war, and Britain's military history.

In his early academic career, Professor Freedman concentrated on the Soviet strategic threat, Britain's nuclear deterrent and the evolution of the trans-Atlantic Alliance.

As the Cold War ended, Professor Freedman was one of the prime movers in the growing debate about European security arrangements, as well as the new and emerging threats of terrorism and failed states. In all his contributions, he has combined erudition with a sympathetic view of the challenges facing Britain's Armed Forces, thereby enlightening a generation and more, in Britain and abroad, about the challenges facing us, and the appropriate role which the military can play to overcome them[20]

His other awards include Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Security Studies Section of the US International Studies Association (2007)[21] and the first George G Bell Award for strategic studies leadership from the Canadian International Council (2008).[22]

He was made a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom when appointed to the Iraq Inquiry in 2009.[23]

Personal life

His wife is Judith Freedman, Pinsent Masons Professor of Taxation Law and a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.[24] They have two children, Ruth and Sam. Sam is an education policy expert who was a Senior Policy Advisor to the then Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove from 2010 to 2013 and is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government.[25]

Selected publications

  • War, strategy, and international politics: essays in honour of Sir Michael Howard edited by Robert O'Neill, Lawrence Freedman, and Paul Hayes (1992); ISBN 0-19-822292-0
  • Freedman, Lawrence D. "The Special Relationship, then and now". Foreign Affairs. May/June 2006.
  • Freedman, Lawrence (2013). Strategy: A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-932515-3.
  • Freedman, Lawrence (2017). The Future of War: A History. New York: Public Affairs.
  • Freedman, Lawrence (4 October 2018). Nuclear Deterrence. illustrated by Duncan Smith. London: Ladybird Books. ISBN 978-0-7181-8889-4.
  • Freedman, Sir Lawrence (2019). Ukraine and the Art of Strategy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Freedman, Lawrence (2022). Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

References

  1. ^ DeGroot, Gerard (13 December 2013). "'Strategy: A History' by Lawrence Freedman". The Washington Post. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  2. ^ Corn, Tony (9 September 2006). "Clausewitz in Wonderland". RealClearPolitics. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Biography of Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman". Iraq Inquiry. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  4. ^ Miles, Oliver (22 November 2009). "Oliver Miles: The key question – is Blair a war criminal?". The Independent. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
  5. ^ OLIS web OPAC Archived 12 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine, University of Oxford.
  6. ^ Debrett's People of Today (2009).
  7. ^ "Visiting Scholars and Practitioners – Lawrence Freedman". Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford . Retrieved 7 September 2020.
  8. ^ "Chicago speech memo" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2014.
  9. ^ "Letter Freedman wrote to John Chilcot explaining his role in the Chicago speech" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2016.
  10. ^ "Current research & consultancy projects: Lawrence Freedman". King's College London. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  11. ^ "Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman". King's College London. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  12. ^ "Authors: Lawrence D. Freedman". Foreign Affairs. 7 August 2017.
  13. ^ "Past Winners of the Arthur Ross Book Award". Council on Foreign Relations.
  14. ^ "Biography: Lawrence Freedman". King's College London. Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  15. ^ "Books of the Year". Financial Times. 29 November 2013.
  16. ^ "W.J.M. Mackenzie Book Prize: Past Winners" (PDF) (Press release). Political Studies Association.
  17. ^ "No. 54427". The London Gazette. 14 June 1996. p. 8.
  18. ^ Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG)
  19. ^ "No. 56797". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2002. p. 3.
  20. ^ "Gold medal for Sir Lawrence". King's College London. 24 May 2023.
  21. ^ "International award for King's VP". King's College London. 24 May 2023.
  22. ^ "First Annual George G. Bell Strategic Leadership Award". Canadian International Council.[permanent dead link]
  23. ^ "Biography of Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman". The Iraq Inquiry.
  24. ^ "Judith Freedman". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 27 May 2012. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
  25. ^ "Sam Freedman". Institute for Government. 10 June 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2022.

Further reading

  • Christopher Clark, "'This Is a Reality, Not a Threat'" (review of Lawrence Freedman, The Future of War: A History, Public Affairs, 2018, 376 pp.; and Robert H. Latiff, Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield, Knopf, 2018, 192 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXV, no. 18 (22 November 2018), pp. 53–54.
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Preceded by
Wolf Mendl
Head of Department of War Studies, KCL
1982–1997
Succeeded by
Christopher Dandeker

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