Frederick W. Kagan

Kagan is Senior Fellow and Director of the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute

Recent Articles

The Ukraine Counteroffensive Can Succeed

The Ukrainian counteroffensive is going slow, but success is still possible. Here's how.

By Frederick W. Kagan , Karolina Hird and Kateryna Stepanenko

The U.S. Should Continue Supporting Ukraine—Americans Want To

The Ukraine war will turn on the West’s willingness to continue supporting Ukraine and on the fortitude of Ukrainians themselves

By Frederick W. Kagan and Mark Polyak

Ukraine’s Resilience Transcends the Battlefield

A series of polls suggests that the war has increased the Ukrainian people’s trust in their government

By Frederick W. Kagan and Mark Polyak

The New Russian Offensive Is Intended to Project Power It Cannot Sustain

The fight for Severodonetsk is a Russian information operation in the form of a battle. One of its main purposes for Moscow is to create the impression that Russia has regained its strength and will...

By Frederick W. Kagan

Ukraine Shows the Strength of a Free People

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a confrontation of a dictatorship against a free people. The free people are winning in no small part because they are free. Ukraine and Russia both emerged from the...

By Frederick W. Kagan
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