Speaker biographies

Frederick W. Kagan is a resident scholar in defense and security policy studies. His book Finding the Target (Encounter Books), an examination of American military transformation, will come out later this year. Previously an associate professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he is coeditor of The Military History of the Soviet Union (Palgrave Press, 2002) and The Military History of Tsarist Russia (Palgrave Press, 2002). He is the coauthor of While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today (St. Martin’s Press, 2000), and has written numerous articles on defense and foreign policy issues for the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, Commentary, Parameters, and other periodicals, and is coeditor of the Yale Library of Military History.

William Kristol is editor of The Weekly Standard. Widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading political analysts and commentators, Mr. Kristol regularly appears on Fox News Sunday and on the Fox News Channel. Before starting The Weekly Standard in 1995, Mr. Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future, where he helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican Congressional victory. Prior to that, Mr. Kristol served as chief of staff to both Vice President Dan Quayle during the Bush administration and to Secretary of Education William Bennett under President Ronald Reagan. Before coming to Washington in 1985, Mr. Kristol taught politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Kristol recently coauthored the New York Times bestseller The War Over Iraq: America’s Mission and Saddam’s Tyranny (Encounter Books, 2003) and is the editor of The Weekly Standard: A Reader.

Speaker biographies