Lawrence Freedman

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File:Lawrence D. Freedman.jpg
Born	1948 7 December 1948 England, United Kingdom
Nationality	UK
Ethnicity	Jewish
Alma mater	Whitley Bay Grammar School, University of Manchester, University of York, Oxford University/Nuffield College
Children	Sam Freedman
Spouse	Judith Freedman
Interests	war, Middle East
King's College academic who handed Tony Blair pretexts for why starting wars is "legitimate". Single Bilderberger. Chilcot Inquiry Iraq war whitewash.

Sir Lawrence David Freedman is a Jewish-British academic and Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London. An attendant at the 1991 Bilderberg meeting, he was later the one who put the words in Tony Blair's mouth about "legitimate" wars.

Activities

Freedman authored a paper on The Middle East: Political Fallout And Future Prospects which he presented to the 1991 Bilderberg.

In April 1999, Prime Minster Tony Blair gave a speech in Chicago called The Doctrine of the International Community, in which he set out five conditions he claimed would make starting a war "legitimate". Earlier the same month, Freedman had sent a fax to Number 10 with some ideas for the Chicago speech – and it was he who suggested the five conditions.

He created an Official History of the Falklands War with a whitewash report.

He was part of the Chilcot Inquiry whitewash of the Iraq war.

Education

He was educated at Whitley Bay Grammar School, the University of Manchester (BA), University of York (BPhil), and Nuffield college and the Faculty of Social Studies at Oxford. His DPhil thesis, submitted in 1975, was The definition of the Soviet threat in strategic arms decisions of the United States: 1961–1974. He also then held a part-time lectureship at Balliol College.

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.

In his early career, Freedman concentrated on the giving an academic sheen to the propaganda about the Soviet strategic threat, Britain's nuclear weapons and the trans-Atlantic Alliance. As the Cold War ended, he was one of the prime movers in peddling the "new and emerging threats" of "terrorism" and "failed states".