Lawrence Freedman

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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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war 14

The scale of civilian deaths in Gaza followed from Israeli leaders' strategic choices, not from the AI used to pick the targets.
Enemy manipulation of a whole society's information environment is unlikely ever to be decisive in a war, because shaping another society's perceptions is genuinely hard.

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Europe 4

Putin set out to demilitarise Ukraine and has achieved the opposite.
Ukraine is defending Europe's borders, not only its own.

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Russia 2

The West is not doing Ukraine a favour by helping it resist Russia; Ukraine is doing the West a favour.
Putin set out to demilitarise Ukraine and has achieved the opposite.

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