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Frederick Kagan

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.

Frederick Kagan

Career[edit]

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.[1] 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).[2]

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine[edit]

Kagan has regularly contributed to daily reports by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[9] The ISW was founded by his wife, Kimberly Kagan.

The military reforms of Nicholas I: the origins of the modern Russian army. St. Martin's Press. 1999.  0312219288. OCLC 40113408.

ISBN

The military history of Tsarist Russia. Palgrave. 2002.  0312226357. OCLC 45799681. edited with Robin D. S. Higham

ISBN

. Palgrave. 2002. ISBN 0-312-29398-4. OCLC 49046824. edited with Robin D. S. Higham

The military history of the Soviet Union

Leaders in war : West Point remembers the 1991 Gulf War. Frank Cass. 2005.  0415350166. OCLC 55679032. edited with Christian Kubik

ISBN

. Da Capo Books. 2006. ISBN 0-306-81137-5. OCLC 70714210.

The end of the old order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801–1805

. Encounter Books. 2006. ISBN 1-594-03150-9. OCLC 67375072.

Finding the target: the transformation of American military policy

Ground truth: the future of U.S. land power. AEI Press. 2008.  978-0-844-74262-5. OCLC 213765941.with Thomas Donnelly

ISBN

. AEI Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-844-74284-7. OCLC 318421296. edited with Thomas Donnelly

Lessons for a long war: how America can win on new battlefields

Recent publications[edit]

Articles[edit]

"China has three roads to Taiwan: The US must block them all", The Hill, March 13, 2023 (co-authored with Dan Blumenthal)[10]

Archived November 19, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

AEI profile

(2000)

Rebuilding America's Defenses

"PBS NewsHour": Archived January 18, 2014, at the Wayback Machine (March 11, 2008) Kagan, an architect of the Iraq "surge" strategy, debates the outcome of that strategy with journalist Nir Rosen.

"As Violence Peaks and Dips, Debate Over 'Surge' Persists"

on C-SPAN

Appearances