Speaker biographies

Max Boot is a historian and the author of War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today (Gotham Books, 2006) and the award-winning The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (Basic Books, 2002). A senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a weekly foreign-affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times, he lectures regularly at numerous military schools and advises the Department of Defense on transformation issues.

Thomas Donnelly is a resident fellow in defense and security policy studies at AEI. He is the author of The Military We Need: The Defense Requirements of the Bush Doctrine (AEI Press, 2005) and Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Strategic Assessment (AEI Press, 2004), and a contributor to AEI’s monthly National Security Outlook. In February 2005, he was appointed by Senator Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to a two-year term on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Before coming to AEI, he served as the director of strategic communications and initiatives at Lockheed Martin and as deputy executive director of the Project for the New American Century. From 1995 to 1999, he was the policy group director and a professional staff member for the Committee on National Security (now the Committee on Armed Services) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Donnelly has also been the executive director of The National Interest, editor of the Army Times, and deputy editor of Defense News.

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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