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		Frederick Kagan is the neo-conservative scholar to whom George W. Bush listens.
		Frederick Kagan is a fraud in that he espouses knowledge on military matters in Iraq that he does not have.
		Frederick Kagan is an amateur who should be exposed and run out of Washington on a rail for all the damage he is doing to our nation.
	stevegilliard.blogspot.com /2007/01/scourge-of-kagans.html (1177 words)

	Yale · History · News · Donald Kagan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Donald Kagan, the Sterling Professor of Classics and History and former dean of Yale College, was among eight recipients of the National Humanities Medal for 2002 awarded by President George W. Bush at a White House ceremony on Feb. 27.
		Kagan's four-volume study of Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War" is considered a classic on the subject.
		Kagan was named the Richard M. Colgate Professor of History and Classics in 1979 and became the Bass Professor of History and Classics and Western Civilization in 1991.
	www.yale.edu /history/news/kagan.html (555 words)

	Flit
		Kagan goes on to lay out his case, which is more than one could say for the previous attempt, by the other Kagan, Robert, and Bill Kristol, which said only, without further elaboration, "Those who claim that it is impossible to send 50,000 more troops to Iraq, because the troops don't exist, are wrong.
		Kagan stipulates that the only U.S. troops that are immediately available would have to by delaying the return dates on 20,000 soldiers now in theatre when the next block of 20,000 trained replacements arrive.
		Kagan cheats a little by using the trouble spot population, but also counting Iraqi troops: effectively discounting large portions of the country as already 'cleared' in coming up with his 1-to-40 thumbnailer.
	www.snappingturtle.net /flit/archives/2006_11_28.html (1434 words)

	Frederick Kagan - SourceWatch
		Kagan, who "participated in dozens of panel discussions, strategy development sessions and war games" at West Point, is "the author of AEI's most recent 'surge plan' that would put four additional Army brigades into Baghdad and two additional Marine regimental combat teams into Sunni-dominated Anbar Province, in an effort to curtail Iraqi violence," Carey wrote.
		Kagan was a signatory to the January 28, 2005, Project for the New American Century letter to Congress calling for "Increasing U.S. Ground Forces" in Iraq.
		Kagan is the son of Donald Kagan, who is a professor at Yale and a fellow at the Hudson Institute.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Frederick_Kagan (2702 words)

	Frederick kagan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Frederick kagan the enlargement of settling international institutions, much as billion per year.
		Freed from frederick kagan the postmodern world, that american foreign policy as any frederick kagan because they are next.
		The differing frederick kagan threat to the principle of the was responding to the editor.
	kagan.newatlanticcity.org /frederick-kagan.html (801 words)

	Iraq out of time, needs troops
		Frederick Kagan, a former instructor at West Point and now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, believes his plan to add seven Army brigade combat teams and Marine regiments to Baghdad and Anbar province early next year could establish security in Baghdad by the fall of 2007.
		Kagan would not pull forces from outside of Baghdad into that fight, Rather, he would leave them in place to continue their daily operations -- preventing insurgents and sectarian militias from establishing a foothold in areas previously secured from them.
		Kagan also says the U.S. Army and Marine Corps must add at least 60,000 troops to their pay roll in the next two years and the increase must be permanent.
	www.spacewar.com /reports/Iraq_out_of_time_needs_troops.html (1527 words)

	Frederick Kagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frederick W. Kagan is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a former professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
		Frederick Kagan and his father Donald Kagan, who is a professor at Yale and a fellow at the Hudson Institute, together authored While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today (2000).
		[1] Frederick along with his brother Robert Kagan, who is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, and their father Donald are all signatories to the Project for the New American Century manifesto titled Rebuilding America's Defenses (2000).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_Kagan (183 words)

	The End or More of the Same? - Frederick Kagan - The End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801-1805 - Epinions.com
		As Kagan points out in his introduction, the study of war cannot be separated from the study of politics, diplomacy, society and economics.
		Kagan examines the second coalition, 1801-1803, the development of Russian hostility to Napoleon's rule, the increasing Austrian hostility, and the Formation of the Third coalition, and so on.
		While Kagan's work is magisterial in the sense that he masterfully pulls together a variety of materials, and he analyzes and interprets them judiciously, skillfully, like the master he is, he still approaches this transformative period from a specific, and intensely traditional point of view: the master story is the story of the masters.
	www.epinions.com /content_416518540932 (1343 words)

	The 'Surge': Tragedy Replayed as Farce
		Frederick Kagan's power-point paper on victory in Iraq, a sort of Viagra-driven two-year surge of troops, presented at the American Enterprise Institute Dec. 14, proves nothing about war-fighting or strategy—though it does lend credence to the theory that the nuts don't fall far from the tree.
		Kagan identifies this last argument as a "remarkable rhetorical trick, lending a conservative coloration to what was in fact a daring departure." He suggests that Alcibiades might have learned this from the Sophists.
		Kagan's acknowledgment for his The Peloponnesian War is extended "to my sons Fred and Bob, historians both, who have taught me so much in their written work and in countless wonderful conversations." Clearly, they did not fall far from the tree.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/2007/3403kagan_surge.html (1135 words)

	Frederick Kagan and William Kristol - ForaTv
		Kagan is joined by William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, to discuss how he believes Napoleon's reign can be used to teach America how to interact with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
		Frederick Kagan is a 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.
		However, as both Kagan and Kristol warn no situation in history is completely parallel to any other, cultural, political, context and perspective must also be taken into account.
	www.fora.tv /fora/showthread.php?p=944 (249 words)

	Howard Kurtz and the royal Kagans - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
		I vouched for Kimberly Kagan's academic credentials in linking to her assessment of the progress of the "surge" for the Weekly Standard.
		I should have disclosed that Kagan is the wife of Frederick Kagan, the principal author of the surge; and his brother is Bob Kagan, another pro-surge advocate and editor at the Weekly Standard, and they're both sons of Donald Kagan, who is also a neoconservative intellectual.
		More to the point: Kimberly Kagan is listed as one of the participants in her husband's research team that came up with the surge in the first place.
	www.salon.com /opinion/greenwald/2007/03/12/The_Kagans/index.html (1664 words)

	Hoover Institution - Policy Review - Romping Through Europe
		According to Kagan, it was not a tummy ache that felled Napoleon at Waterloo but rather the coalition that had been formed against him, and it is the theme of coalition-building that has Kagan’s great interest.
		Kagan proves that it is perfectly possible to see Napoleon’s flaws and essential nastiness while acknowledging the brilliance of his mind, with its almost Mozartian simplicity and elegance.
		Kagan dispassionately dissects Napoleons failures as well as his successes — as was indeed Napoleon’s own method when studying the ancients and Frederick the Great: “Read and meditate upon the wars of the greatest captains,” he admonished.
	www.hoover.org /publications/policyreview/5516546.html (3935 words)

	Analysis: Frederick Kagan and US-UK relations - Telegraph
		Frederick Kagan's day job is as a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, the Washington think tank most closely linked to the Bush administration's Iraq policy.
		Mr Kagan is also highly critical of Britain's performance around Basra and now of the failure of British commanders to deploy ground troops to assist the Iraqi Army's battle against Iranian-backed militias in Basra.
		But Mr Kagan is a highly influential thinker, whose work on Iraq is praised across the political spectrum and read widely in the White House, Pentagon and State Department.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/worldnews/1583328/Analysis-Frederick-Kagan-and-US-UK-relations.html (704 words)

	FSO Transcription - Frederick Kagan "While America Sleeps" - 12/20/2000
		FREDERICK: I think it certainly is and one of the reasons why we chose to look at an inter-war period is because we think that we are in an inter-war period today.
		FREDERICK: Well, it is one of the differences between Britain and the United States now, in some sense, is that the British were in a much worse economic position than we have been.
		FREDERICK: I think that then Secretary Cheney and President Bush saw very clearly that the aggression that the Iraqi’s had perpetrated could not be allowed to stand.
	www.financialsense.com /transcriptions/2000/Kagan2.html (5279 words)

	Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: ATTENTION: War supporters - your country needs you
		Kagan thereafter issued an "Executive Summary" to accompany a report detailing what the "surge" plan requires in order to succeed (h/t Chasm).
		Relatedly, it appears that Fred Kagan himself (who graduated college in 1991), along with his equally pro-war brother Robert, are both young enough to enlist.
		By stark contrast, Kagan and many others are claiming that America's ability to win "the war" is now threatened by the failure of more Americans to volunteer for military service.
	glenngreenwald.blogspot.com /2007/01/attention-war-supporters-your-country.html (1832 words)

	http://thebookblogger.com/compasspoints/2006/10/catastrophe.html (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Frederick Kagan rightly asserts--in WaPo this morning --that much is at stake in Iraq.
		Frederick Kagan tries to buck us all up in the Washington Post, writing The implication of these arguments is clear: The United States should prepare to leave Iraq, after which the Iraqis will work out their own troubles -- or they won't.
		Frederick W. Kagan offers an excellent column in today's Washington Post arguing that we cannot simply leave Iraq to its fate after having created the problems which have placed that country in such dire straits.
	tailrank.com /729589 (612 words)

	Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq - Brookings Institution
		Kagan argued that victory in Iraq was still possible if the U.S. military shifted its priorities from training Iraqi forces to securing the population and stabilizing Baghdad.
		Kagan underscored that the proposed surge in U.S. troops was not an end in itself, but rather means to securing the population and enabling national reconciliation, political and economic development.
		Kagan thought that bringing in foreign troops would be a useful approach, but he pointed out political and practical difficulties of such a scheme.
	www.brookings.edu /events/2006/1221iraq.aspx (1261 words)

	Media Matters - Kristol's first Time column contradicted by Time 's own reporting
		The surge belongs to the neocons and in particular to Frederick Kagan, who taught military history at West Point for a decade and today works out of the American Enterprise Institute as a military analyst.
		Kagan argued for a surge last fall in the pages of the Weekly Standard, the neocons' house organ, after the military's previous surge, Operation Forward Together, failed in late October.
		Kagan turned to former Army Vice Chief of Staff Jack Keane, a retired four-star general who still has street cred at the Pentagon, to help flesh out the plan and then sell it to the White House.
	mediamatters.org /items/200701090013 (1005 words)

	Right Web \| Profile \| Frederick Kagan
		Frederick Kagan, along with father Donald and brother Robert, belongs to the influential neoconservative Kagan family, in the same vein as the Kristol and Podhoretz clans.
		On January 5, 2007, Kagan published a widely noted AEI report on Iraq aimed at influencing the Bush administration's efforts to revamp its approach to the war.
		Kagan participated in a PNAC study group that produced Rebuilding America's Defenses, a 2000 book that foreshadowed many of the defense policies adopted by the administration of President George W. Bush.
	rightweb.irc-online.org /profile/1240.html (1051 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Finding The Target, by Frederick Kagan, Hardcover, ANN
		Kagan, currently resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is emerging as a leading voice among national security analysts.
		With unusual clarity and understanding, Kagan describes the individual and collective dynamics of the four armed services in the two decades after Vietnam, when the military saw a series of definable threats demanding specific responses.
		But with Afghanistan and Iraq standing grimly in the background, Kagan warns that, in practice, NCW reinforces the concept of war as "killing people and blowing things up" at the expense of the political objectives that separate war from murder.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /Finding-The-Target/Frederick-Kagan/e/9781594031502 (606 words)

	A Tiny Revolution: Nir Rosen And Frederick Kagan On Surge
		Kagan deserves to be mocked and ostracized because of the things he says and does.
		What I also noticed was that Kagan went out of his way to parrot the line that the surge is working (as we speak, it's beginning to unravel) and to flippantly dismiss anything that was said.
		Whether to castigate Kagan for his slovenly personal habits is a close question, so in the spirit of the political season I will simply note that comments on his obesity may not be in order, but his fatheaded refusal to call the occupation an occupation makes him seem dim witted.
	www.tinyrevolution.com /mt/archives/002144.html (1932 words)

	deadissue.com » Blog Archive » Frederick Kagan - Napoleon Chose Victory Over Defeat
		Frederick Kagan and his fellow “thinkers” at Project for a New American Century thought otherwise and produced the now infamous ‘Rebuilding America’s Defenses‘.
		Kagan hasn’t got examples to cite or comparisons to make in regards to Iraq and prior military history, but rather politics and politics and politics and some fairy dust.
		Results are in, and Frederick Kagan, William Kristol, the rest of the worst are living up to their reputations, that I’ve described for a while now as to military and foreign policy what Drew Bledsoe is to football.
	deadissue.com /archives/2007/01/09/frederick-kagan-napoleon-chose-victory-over-defeat (2453 words)

	Project for the New American Century
		America is at war, yet, according to military historian Frederick Kagan and former House speaker Newt Gingrich, we have not funded our military to reflect the harsh realities we face in the post-September 11 world.
		In the accompanying Weekly Standard piece ("Cheap Hawks Can't Fly"), Kagan welcomes the administration's new strategic doctrine released in mid-September as a "relief from a decade of confusion and misdirection," but warns that the "defense budget must be increased dramatically" if we expect our military to be "able to fulfill the President's national security strategy."
		Frederick W. Kagan is a military historian and co-author of "While America Sleeps."
	www.newamericancentury.org /defense-20021028.htm (1374 words)

	Online NewsHour: Conversation \| Expert Discusses Troops in Iraq \| November 1, 2006 \| PBS
		FREDERICK KAGAN: Now we need to go in and do correctly the operation that the military did incorrectly -- Operation Forward Together -- which was just recently completed in Baghdad and, obviously, didn't succeed.
		FREDERICK KAGAN: It's very hard for an outsider to estimate exactly how many troops are necessary, but my best guess would be somewhere around 50,000 additional American troops would probably be necessary to pull this off properly.
		FREDERICK KAGAN: Well, it is certainly true that American troops irritate Iraqis in certain circumstances, especially when they don't provide what the Iraqis most want, which is security.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec06/troops_11-01.html (2230 words)

	Going for Broke
		Kagan’s “surge” is the first cousin to Kenneth Adelman’s more famous “cakewalk.” It is ideology dressed up as strategy.
		Believe Kagan and you can avoid for at least a bit longer having to confront Iraq’s incontrovertible lessons: that preventive war doesn’t work, that American power has limits, that the world is not infinitely malleable, and that grasping for “benign global hegemony” is a self-defeating proposition.
		Neoconservatives like Kagan believe that the United States is called upon to remake the Middle East, bringing the light of freedom to a dark quarter of the world.
	www.amconmag.com /2007/2007_01_29/cover.html (2382 words)

	The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics - Links 12/02: Frederick Kagan, Juan Cole, Larry Craig, Russian ...
		Frederick Kagan, The neo-conservative behind "the surge" is urging President Bush to send troops into Pakistan to seize that countries nuclear weapons.
		This is the same Frederick Kagan who "participated in a PNAC study group that produced Rebuilding America's Defenses, a 2000 book that foreshadowed many of the defense policies adopted by the administration of President George W. Bush."
		kagan is a nut job pnac..creep..right now were blowing the shit outta north west pakastan..you wont hear that on t.v…it has all the smell of two green lights from d.c.
	www.theseminal.com /2007/12/02/links-1202-frederick-kagan-juan-cole-larry-craig-russian-elections-and-sex-on-the-city (684 words)

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