1. Kimberly Ellen Kagan was born on 1972 and is an American military historian.
11 Facts About Kimberly Kagan
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Kimberly Kagan founded and heads the Institute for the Study of War and has taught at West Point, Yale, Georgetown University, and American University.
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Kimberly Kagan is the daughter of Kalman Kessler, a Jewish accountant and school teacher from New York City and his wife Frances.
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Kimberly Kagan received her BA in classical civilization and her PhD in history from Yale University.
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Kimberly Kagan served on the Joint Campaign Plan Assessment Team for Multi-National Force-Iraq-US Mission Iraq in October 2008, and as part of the Civilian Advisory Team for the CENTCOM strategic review in January 2009.
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Kimberly Kagan served in Kabul as a member of General Stanley McChrystal's strategic assessment team, composed of civilian experts, during his strategic review in June and July 2009.
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Kimberly Kagan serves on the Academic Advisory Board at the Afghanistan-Pakistan Center of Excellence at CENTCOM.
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Kimberly Kagan is the founder and President of the Institute for the Study of War.
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Kimberly Kagan supported the 2007 troop surge in Iraq and subsequently advocated for an expanded and restructured American military campaign in Afghanistan.
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On May 25,2010, Kimberly Kagan participated in a briefing on Capitol Hill focusing on Iraq's political crisis that included remarks from Iraqi Ambassador Samir Sumaidaie and Kenneth Pollack, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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Kimberly Kagan is an advisory board member of Spirit of America, a 501 organization that supports the safety and success of Americans serving abroad and the local people and partners they seek to help.