What Lawrence Freedman thinks about America

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Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London and official historian of the Falklands campaign; writes on strategy at Comment is Freed.

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1. 17 Aug 2026

   Our readingWhen AI-assisted targeting goes wrong the failure lies in the strategic concept it is serving, not in the technology.

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   Their wordsThe 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.

   ↗AI and the New Fog of Warsamf.substack.com 4th of 5 in this piece