Frederick Kagan
Frederick Kagan | |
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PhD) | |
Occupation | Resident Scholar |
Employer | American Enterprise Institute |
Spouse | Kimberly Kagan |
Parent | Donald Kagan |
Relatives | Robert Kagan, brother |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | Reform for survival: Russian military policy and conservative reform, 1825-1836 (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | Paul Kennedy |
Frederick W. Kagan (born 1970) is an American resident
Career
He and his father,
Influence
Kagan authored the "real Iraq Study Group" report as the American Enterprise Institute's rival to the
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 affect policy. It was simply 'Maybe we can put some concrete numbers on the table, some concrete enemy on a map, some concrete units on a grid, and force other people who want to have this discussion to wrestle with the specifics of the problem.'"[6]
Advising David Petraeus
In 2010, U.S. Army General
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Kagan has regularly contributed to daily reports by the
Bibliography
- The military reforms of Nicholas I: the origins of the modern Russian army. St. Martin's Press. 1999. OCLC 40113408.
- The military history of Tsarist Russia. Palgrave. 2002. OCLC 45799681. edited with Robin D. S. Higham
- The military history of the Soviet Union. Palgrave. 2002. OCLC 49046824. edited with Robin D. S. Higham
- Leaders in war : West Point remembers the 1991 Gulf War. Frank Cass. 2005. OCLC 55679032. edited with Christian Kubik
- The end of the old order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801–1805. Da Capo Books. 2006. OCLC 70714210.
- Finding the target: the transformation of American military policy. Encounter Books. 2006. OCLC 67375072.
- Ground truth: the future of U.S. land power. AEI Press. 2008. OCLC 213765941.with Thomas Donnelly
- Lessons for a long war: how America can win on new battlefields. AEI Press. 2010. OCLC 318421296. edited with Thomas Donnelly
Recent publications
Articles
"China has three roads to Taiwan: The US must block them all", The Hill, March 13, 2023 (co-authored with Dan Blumenthal)[10]
References
- Washington Post. Archivedfrom the original on October 4, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2007.
- Donnelly, Thomas; et al. (September 2000). "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New American Century" (PDF). Project for the New American Century. p. 78. Archived from the original(PDF) on September 23, 2002. Retrieved January 19, 2007.
- ^ Benjamin, Mark (January 6, 2007). "The real Iraq Study Group". salon.com. Archived from the original on July 25, 2008. Retrieved January 19, 2007.
- The Free Lance—Star. Archived from the originalon July 9, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2007.
- ^ Kaplan, Fred (September 1, 2010). "The Transformer". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on August 18, 2010. Retrieved August 17, 2010.
- ^ "Frederick Kagan on the US Military in Iraq, Afghanistan, and at home". Conversations with Bill Kristol. Archived from the original on July 31, 2019. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
- ^ Laura King and Paul Richter, U.S. sends warning to Afghanistan, and John Kerry delivers the message Archived August 21, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Los Angeles Times, August 18, 2010.
- Washington Post, December 19, 2012, accessed December 20, 2012
- ^ "Ukraine Project". Institute for the Study of War. Archived from the original on May 17, 2022. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
- ^ Dan Blumenthal and Fred Kagan (March 13, 2023). "China has three roads to Taiwan: The US must block them all". The Hill. Retrieved October 17, 2023.
External links
- AEI profile Archived November 19, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- Rebuilding America's Defenses (2000)
- "PBS NewsHour": "As Violence Peaks and Dips, Debate Over 'Surge' Persists" (March 11, 2008) Kagan, an architect of the Iraq "surge" strategy, debates the outcome of that strategy with journalist Nir Rosen.
- Appearances on C-SPAN