''While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today'' is a book by

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and

Frederick Kagan Frederick W. Kagan (born 1970) is an American resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a former professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Career He and his father, Donald Kagan, who wa ...

, published September 2000. They argue for a policy of strengthening U.S. defense and a willingness to use force.

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has argued that the book contributed to

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thought in U.S. foreign polic

Title

Two similarly titled works were published around the time of

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: '' While England Slept'' (1938), by future British Prime Minister

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, and '' Why England Slept'' (1940), by future U.S. President

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, at the time a

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student.

Bibliography

*Kagan, Donald and Frederick W. Kagan. ''While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today.'' St. Martin's Press: September 2000. Political books 2000 non-fiction books {{US-poli-book-stub