Lawrence Freedman

Lawrence Freedman     ( academic)
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
Member of	Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Blavatnik School of Government, Ditchley/Governors, Ditchley/UK, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence
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.  Professor of War Studies and Department Head In office 1982 - December 2014 Employer King's College London

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".

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1991	6 June 1991	9 June 1991	Germany Baden-Baden Steigenberger Hotel Badischer Hof	The 39th Bilderberg, 114 guests
Iraq Inquiry	24 November 2009	6 July 2016	London UK	"The point of the delay is to give the impression Chilcot has been absolutely painstaking and therefore the bucket of whitewash he will throw cannot be hiding anything. Do not be fooled." (Craig Murray)
Munich Security Conference/2019	15 February 2019	17 February 2019	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017	17 January 2017	20 January 2017	Switzerland WEF	2952 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2022	22 May 2022	26 May 2022	Switzerland WEF	1912 guests in Davos

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