Kimberly Kagan

'''Kimberly Kagan is the founder and President of the Institute for the Study of War, an educationally oriented military think tank. She is a military historian, and a current member of the Strategic Assessment Group advising GEN Stanley McChrystal, commander in the Afghanistan War (2001-). She has also done multiple field assessments for the commander of Multi-National Force-Iraq.

Kagan is a military historian who has taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Yale University, Georgetown University, and American University. She writes a monthly column about national security for the The Washington Examiner.

She is the author of The Eye of Command (University of Michigan Press, 2006), The Surge: a Military History (Encounter Books, 2009) and editor of The Imperial Moment (forthcoming from Harvard University Press, 2009). Dr. Kagan has published numerous essays including “Don't Short-Circuit the Surge” in the Wall Street Journal, “How to Surge the Taliban” (co-authored with Max Boot and Frederick W. Kagan) in The New York Times, and "Why the Taliban are Winning--For Now" on the Foreign Policy Magazine website.

Education

 * Olin Postdoctoral Fellowship in Military History at Yale International Security Studies in 2004-2005.
 * Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, National Security Fellow in 2002-2003.
 * B.A. in Classical Civilization and Ph.D. in History from Yale University.