
Former Call of Duty director Glen Schofield decided to stop centering the series' antagonists around real-life countries partly for his own security.
Schofield's long and storied game development career includes co-founding Sledgehammer Games and, under the Activision umbrella, co-directing 2011's, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, 2014's Advanced Warfare, and 2017's WWII.