American Enterprise Institute
Topic: “Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success”
AEI Resident Scholar Frederick W. Kagan
Former Acting Army Chief of Staff General Jack Keane

A week after WIP interns went to hearings on Iraq within the newly Democratic House of Representatives, the Washington Internship Program took its students to hear analysis on this topic held at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. This talk took place after the Iraq Study Group recommended withdrawal from Iraq within fifteen months and a week before President George W. Bush addressed the nation on this subject. On Thursday, December 14, at 9:00 in the morning, interns went to AEI’s Wohlstetter Conference Center on the twelfth floor, located on 17th Street, N.W. The AEI report was titled “Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success,” and it called for a sustained surge of U.S. forces to secure and protect critical areas of Baghdad. AEI resident scholar Frederick W. Kagan directed the report in consultation with military and regional experts, including former acting Army Chief of Staff General Jack Keane, former Afghanistan coalition commander Lieutenant General David Barno, and other officers involved with the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment in Tal Afar. Mr. Kagan and General Keane both spoke on how they thought the United States could win in Iraq. They argued that “victory” is the only acceptable outcome.

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