Lawrence Freedman ✓

@LawDavF · joined 27 May 2013

Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. just published Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine (UK Penguin, US OUP)

125 213Followers

1 013Following

42 192Posts total

377.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views4 680this account5 674median for 100K–1M

Reach, %3.74%this account2.38%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.44%this account1.44%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	4 680	5 674	0.82×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.74%	2.38%	1.57×
Engagement rate	0.44%	1.44%	0.31×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

284.7K1 May

14.8K

9.3K

8.8K17 Aug

4.7K19 Aug

7.4K22 Aug

44.1K27 Aug

818

227

248

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.15%1 May

0.45%

0.09%

1.85%

0.55%17 Aug

0.15%19 Aug

0.18%22 Aug

0.50%27 Aug

0.37%

0.44%

0.81%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.44%.

What the audience does

Likes59.7%602 in total

Reposts15.1%152 in total

Replies5.5%55 in total

Quotes1.9%19 in total

Bookmarks17.9%180 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@LawDavF Wider implications are not with Iran, but China. Beijing provides Iran air defence, surveillance/ tech, and components for ballistic missiles. Also provides Russia with imagery for tracking Ukraine targets/help to scale-up its drone fleet. They are not mutually exclu 248 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026 @LawDavF There are many historians who believe problems are best left to fester. If you had the beginnings of a cavity, are you better off seeing the dentist? To avoid cavities should you be brushing and flossing? The ADMINISTRATION'S PURPOSE for the war may not be the narrative 227 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026 @LawDavF Mr. Freedman. Consider that current actions are to prevent future wars. War technology, economics, technological transition, trade and resource access is globally transitioning. Many academics have a pattern of thinking backwards versus forwards. Consider the future as u 818 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 27 Aug 2026 What makes the Iran War especially stupid? In this post I show how it meets key criteria for stupid wars: it went ahead despite likelihood of a bad outcome and decisions on its conduct made situation worse. Comparison are made with Iraq and Suez. (£/free trial), 44.1K views · 148 likes · 50 reposts · 17 replies 27 Aug 2026 New post out answering questions from subscribers covering lots on Russia and Ukraine, UK military spending: pressure on Israel and its coming elections; the deadlock between US and Iran; and historical figures to challenge at croquet. (£/free trial), https://t.co/xDFqCUlkl8? 7.4K views · 10 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 22 Aug 2026 Here are @samfr’s answers to the many questions we received, dealing with possibility of early election, whether Reform has peaked and can it be replaced by Restore, US elections and much more. My answers at weekend (£/free trial), https://t.co/Qx8NKLI5Ab 4.7K views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 19 Aug 2026 Post today addresses the twin beliefs that AI can dispel the fog of war by making targeting more efficient but also increase it by providing adversaries with opportunities to pollute the information environment. It’s long but also free. https://t.co/k9ZjT03JWe 8.8K views · 34 likes · 12 reposts · 2 replies 17 Aug 2026 @LawDavF @Samfr As a chess nut I always go back to the quote from Polish grandmaster Savielly Tartakower "Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do, strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.” 2K views · 32 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 01 May 2024 Should have said this is £/free trial 9.3K views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 01 May 2024 The post looks at the development of the distinction between strategy and tactics in the military sphere, and how tactics came to be demoted. It looks at the tendency in the business sphere to separate strategy as objective setting while tactics is purely about implementation. I 14.8K views · 50 likes · 12 reposts · 4 replies 01 May 2024 It’s time to speak up for tactics. Being ‘tactical’ is often disparaged and considered a lesser activity than being strategic. Yet good strategy requires good tactics. https://t.co/o4u8iU0qUm 284.7K views · 310 likes · 70 reposts · 30 replies 01 May 2024