A Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Frederick W. Kagan is co-author of While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and The Threat to Peace Today. His articles on defense and foreign policy have appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He lives with his wife, Kim, in Washington, D.C.
paper, by Frederick W. Kagan — The American military has met a daunting set of challenges over the past few decades, from facing down the vast Soviet armies to hunting individual terrorists in the mountains of Afghanistan. Throughout this period, the armed forces have been engaged in a continual process of reinvention, commonly called transformation. Military officers and civilians have been constantly forced not only to cope[...]
hardcover, by Frederick W. Kagan — In Finding the Target, Frederick W. Kagan describes the three basic transformations within the U.S. military since Vietnam. First was the move to an all-volunteer force and a new generation of weapons systems in the 1970s. Second was the emergence of stealth technology and precision-guided munitions in the 1980s. Third was the information technology that followed the fall of the Soviet[...]
