Lawrence Freedman

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Sir Lawrence David Freedman is Professor of War Studies at King's College London, a post he has held since 1982. He has recently been appointed Vice-Principal (Research) at King's. He was educated at Whitley Bay Grammar School and the Universities of Manchester, York and Oxford. Before joining King's he held research appointments at Nuffield College Oxford, IISS and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and awarded the CBE in 1996, and is the Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign. He was awarded the KCMG in 2003. ^[1]

Before joining King's he held research appointments at Nuffield College and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. His area of academic expertise is nuclear strategy and the cold war, though he writes regularly on contemporary security issues. The two-volume Official History of the Falklands War was released in 2006.

His principal areas of interest include contemporary defence and foreign policy issues.

Freedman has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the cold war, as well as commentating regularly on contemporary security issues. His most 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. In addition a book on deterrence was published in 2004 and the Official History of the Falklands Campaign was published in the summer of 2005.

Freedman's wife Judith is KPMG Professor of Taxation Law and a Fellow of Worcester College at Oxford University. They have two children, Sam and Ruth.