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Frederick W. Kagan is a distinguished military historian who has taught at West Point, and is now Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute specializing in defense issues and the American military. He is the author of The Military Reforms of Nicholas I: The Origins of the Modern Russian Army, and is co-author with Donald Kagan of While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today.

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Academic and think tank scholar

Frederick W. Kagan (born 1970) is an American resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a former professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Career

He and his father, Donald Kagan, who was a professor at Yale and a fellow at the Hudson Institute, co-authored While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today (2000). The book argued in favor of a large increase in military spending and warned of future threats, including from a potential revival of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. Frederick and Robert Kagan, who is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, and their father, Donald, were all signatories to the Project for the New American Century manifesto, Rebuilding America's Defenses (2000).

Influence

Kagan authored the "real Iraq Study Group" report as the American Enterprise Institute's rival to the Iraq Study Group report of James Baker and Lee H. Hamilton in December 2006. The AEI report, Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq, was released on January 5, 2007, and Kagan was said to have won over the ear of President George W. Bush, strongly influencing his subsequent "surge" plan for changing the course of the Iraq War. Along with retired General Jack Keane, retired Colonel Joel Armstrong, and retired Major Daniel Dwyer, Kagan is credited as one of the "intellectual architects" of the surge plan. According to Foreign Policy magazine, Kagan's essay "We're Not the Soviets in Afghanistan" influenced the strategic thinking of US Defense SecretaryRobert Gates, which reportedly influenced Gates's decision to support sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.

Remarking on the surge in 2015, Kagan said that while the AEI group convened that "it never occurred to me or anybody that was involved in this that we were going to affe

PERSONAL:

Born March 26, 1970; son of Donald Kagan (a historian). Education:Yale University, B.A., Ph.D.

ADDRESSES:

Office—American Enterprise Institute, 1150 17th St. N.W., Washington, DC 20036; fax: 202-862-7177. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Historian, scholar, educator, writer, and editor. United States Military Academy at West Point, West Point, NY, assistant professor, 1995-2001, associate professor of military history, 2001-05; American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, resident scholar, c. 2005—.

WRITINGS:

The Military Reforms of Nicholas I: The Origins of the Modern Russian Army, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1999.

(With father, Donald Kagan) While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 2000.

(Editor and author of introduction, with Robin Higham) The Military History of Tsarist Russia, Palgrave (New York, NY), 2002.

(Editor, with Robin Higham, and contributor) The Military History of the Soviet Union, Palgrave (New York, NY), 2002.

(Editor, with Christian Kubik) Leaders in War: West Point Remembers the 1991 Gulf War, Frank Cass (New York, NY), 2005.

The End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801-1805, Perseus Books Group (New York, NY), 2006.

Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy, Encounter Books (New York, NY), 2006.

Also author of Why Military History Matters, AEI National Security Outlook; coeditor of "The Yale Library of Military History" series, Yale University Press; contributing editor to the Weekly Standard; contributor to periodicals.

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Frederick W. Kagan is a noted military historian who taught at West Point before joining the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author or editor of numerous books focusing on military topics. In his 1999 book, The Military Reforms of Nicholas I: The Origins of the Modern Russian Army, the author explor