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🚨NEW PODCAST🚨 In this episode of Stop the World, david wroe speaks to Emeritus Professor Lawrence Freedman about the "short war fallacy" and the protracted nature of conflicts, prospects for peace in 🇺🇦 & what Xi Jinping might be thinking about 🇹🇼. Listen here: bit.ly/45c8Anp

The university sector is in trouble. Sam explains why and proposes a solution (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/on-…?

Is there anything we can learn from Bidenomics? Quite a lot apparently. Fascinating and thoroughly researched piece by Ed Balls and Daniel Turner for Comment is Freed (free) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/run…?

My new post looks at how Trump’s peace process came to an end, with him still claiming despite the evidence that Putin shared his interest in a ceasefire, and at what happens next. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/the…?

Its no longer possible to ignore the prospect of Reform as a party of government. So what would it do in power? Sam looks for clues in what they say and do. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/wha…?

For first part of my career I described myself add an arms controller, but there’s not a lot of arms control around now. A brief historical survey to explain what went wrong. (This one is free). open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/wha…?

Latest from @samfr draws on his past experience to illuminate the craziness of spending reviews in anticipation of the publication of the next one. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/wha…?

Delighted that my book on Command is now available in Ukraine.

We are saddened to lean of the recent death of SAHR Fellow and former Council member Prof. Brian Bond. With half a century's worth of publications to his credit, Prof. Bond made a huge impact on the study of war in the late-19th & 20th centuries. Our condolences to his family.

The response to the UK defence review has stressed long-term affordability but its most important recommendations are for the short-term. I offer a generally positive assessment, in the light of events in the Russo-Ukraine War. (£/free trial). open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/the…?

A bumper crop of questions from subscribers which we have tried to answer - including for me Ukraine, Gaza and NATO and for Sam prospects for Labour and Reform, small boats, and education with a late entry on the Trump-Musk fight. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/answering-yo…

Sam's latest post, continuing his exploration into the rise of the American right, is an interview with author John Ganz (John Ganz) about his book on American in the 1990s, in which they talk about Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot and also Trump. (free) samf.substack.com/p/when-the-clo…

A review of the Spending Review by @samfr highlights the risks left over, including to the NHS, despite its ‘winning’ status. (£/free trial). samf.substack.com/p/everything-y…

This is my first assessment of Israel's strikes against Iran. It will be updated as more and better information becomes available. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/isr…?

I’ve updated my post on the Israeli strikes and the Iranian response. My view remains that this is now as much about the future of the Iranian regime as it is about the future of its nuclear programme, with Israel still keen to get the US involved (£/free trial),

Tracking down the famed 1974 Ottawa Declaration reference to the French and UK nuclear forces. It actually goes back to an autumn 1973 French draft of an Atlantic Declaration which US officials are commenting on below: aad.archives.gov/aad/createpdf?…

Is Europe is in a position to support #Ukraine without Washington? I dug into this, the lessons learned so far from the war in Ukraine, and more with Lawrence Freedman on the The Greek Current. You can tune in to our chat here: thegreekcurrent.simplecast.com/episodes/can-e…

A look at the dysfunction of No 10 under this - and previous - governments by @samfr.bsky.social. Ideas for fixing it - or at least making it more functional. (£/free trial). open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/how…?

How will Iran respond? By the excellent ⁦Lawrence Freedman⁩. In this week’s New Statesman newstatesman.com/world/middle-e…