Frederick Kagan

Director, Critical Threats Porject, American Enterprise Institute

Frederick W. Kagan, author of the 2007 report Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq, is one of the intellectual architects of the successful "surge" strategy in Iraq. He is the director of AEI's Critical Threats Project and a former professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. His books range from Lessons for a Long War (AEI Press, 2010), coauthored with Thomas Donnelly, to the End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801-1805 (Da Capo, 2006). Experience Associate Professor of Military History, 2001-2005; Assistant Professor of Military History, 1995-2001; U.S. Military Academy at West Point Education Ph.D., Russian and Soviet military history; B.A., Soviet and East European studies, Yale University

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Positions

American Enterprise Institute Largest neoconservative think tank

• Christopher DeMuth Chair and Director, Critical Threats Project

In the office of

David Petraeus Former CIA director and former ISAF commander

• adviser (past)

Government Positions

Defense Intelligence Agency

• Advisor (unpaid)

Family

Victoria Nuland State Department spokeswoman; former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs

• sister-in-law

Robert Kagan Neoconservative historian and commentator; adviser to Mitt Romney 2012 campaign

• brother

Kim Kagan Founder and president of the Institute for the Study of War

• wife

Schools

Yale University Private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut - founded in 1701

• BA

Types	Person, Academic
Aliases	Fred Kagan