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Robert Kagan ( / ˈkeɪɡən /; born September 26, 1958) is an American columnist and political scientist. He is a neoconservative [ 1] scholar. He is a critic of U.S. foreign policy and a leading advocate of liberal interventionism. [ 2][ 3] A co-founder of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, [ 4][ 5][ 6] he is a senior ...
Coordinates: 33.7102°N 117.7679°W. The Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial is a memorial in Irvine, California, to American troops who died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. [ 1] The names on the memorial come from US DoD casualty records for Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation New Dawn.
Kimberly Ellen Kagan (born 1972) is an American military historian. She founded and heads the Institute for the Study of War and has taught at West Point, Yale, Georgetown University, and American University. Kagan has published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Weekly Standard and elsewhere. [ 1]
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a neoconservative [ 1][ 2][ 3] think tank based in Washington, D.C., that focused on United States foreign policy. It was established as a non-profit educational organization in 1997, and founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. [ 4][ 5] PNAC's stated goal was "to promote American global ...
The Institute for the Study of War ( ISW) is an American nonprofit research group and advocacy think tank founded in 2007 by military historian Kimberly Kagan and headquartered in Washington, D.C. [ 1][ 2] ISW provides research and analysis regarding issues of defense and foreign affairs.
The Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial in London commemorates British citizens, including both military personnel and civilians, who participated in the Gulf War, the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War. In these three conflicts, which took place between 1990 and 2015, 682 British service personnel died. [ 1] A work by the sculptor Paul Day, the ...
Firdos Square statue destruction. Coordinates: 33.31442°N 44.42084°E. The toppling of Saddam Hussein ’s statue in Firdos Square in Baghdad shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. On April 9, 2003, during the US invasion of Iraq, a large statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square was destroyed by Iraqi civilians and United ...
DS79.76 .K33 2009. The Surge: A Military History is a military history by Kimberly Kagan about the Iraq War troop surge of 2007. The book describes events in Iraq starting from late 2006, before the surge, to early 2008, focusing on the details of military operations on a week by week basis. It was described as "indispensable guide" to the ...