Frederick W. Kagan on the U.S. military in Iraq, Afghanistan, and at home

02/02/2015 1h 34min
Frederick W. Kagan on the U.S. military in Iraq, Afghanistan, and at home

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Director of the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute, Fred Kagan is a foreign policy strategist and military historian. In this conversation, Kagan and Kristol discuss the strategy for the troop surge in Iraq in 2006/07, which Kagan helped devise. The two also consider the state of the U.S. military today, including how it operates in wartime, how it educates its cadets, and how it interacts with civilians.

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