Speaker biographies

Michael O’Hanlon is a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, homeland security, and American foreign policy. He is a visiting lecturer at Princeton University, and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. O’Hanlon’s latest book is Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security (Basic Books, 2006), which he coauthored with Kurt Campbell. He is also the author of Defense Strategy for the Post-Saddam Era (Brookings Institution Press, 2005) and coauthor with Michael Levi of The Future of Arms Control (Brookings Institution Press, 2005). In 2002, O’Hanlon and seven colleagues wrote Protecting the American Homeland, and four years later the subsequent Protecting the Homeland 2006/2007, both published by the Brookings Institution Press. His other books include Defense Policy Choices for the Bush Administration (Brookings Institution Press, 2002) and Defending America: The Case for National Missile Defense (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), coauthored with James Lindsay. His major articles include “Iraq Without a Plan,” Policy Review (January 2005), “Clinton’s Strong Defense Legacy,” Foreign Affairs, (November/December 2003), and “A Flawed Masterpiece: Assessing the Afghanistan Campaign,” Foreign Affairs (May/June 2002). Mr. O’Hanlon was an analyst at the Congressional Budget Office from 1989–94, and also worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses.

Frederick W. Kagan is a resident scholar in defense and security policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. His most recent book, Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy (Encounter Books), was published in September 2006. Previously an associate professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he is the author of The End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801–1805 (Da Capo, 2006) and coauthor of While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today (St. Martin’s Press, 2000). A contributing editor at The Weekly Standard, he has also written numerous articles on defense and foreign policy issues for Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Policy Review, Commentary, Parameters, and other periodicals.

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