Frederick Kagan is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he is director of its Critical Threats Project. He was formerly professor of military history at the US Military Academy at West Point. Author of the 2007 AEI report, Choosing Victory: a plan for success in Iraq, he was one of the intellectual architects of the successful “surge” strategy in Iraq. His books include Finding the Target: the trans­formation of American military policy (2007) and, with Donald Kagan, While America Sleeps: self delusion, military weakness, and the threat to peace today (2000).