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Only since 2007, and a "charitable" 501(c)3 donation" funded entity. "ISW was founded in response to the stagnation of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, with core funding provided by a group of defense contractors; it continues to be supported by defense contractors as well as private donations."
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WHO WE ARE Board Members -- worth reading through them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kagan

Robert Kagan married to Victoria Nuland, and brother of Kimberley Kagan. Served with Clinton and Kerry in State Department. Victoria Nuland is current Under Secretary of State, beneath Blinken.

Nice little family business, so to speak. Some recent article tried peddling the "Robert Kagan, true conservative" line, but I think the promotion of war in many places is not a "true conservative." It does however align quite nicely with the current Biden administration stances.

There is also Fredrick Kagan:

Frederick W. Kagan 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.
He and his father, Donald Kagan, who was a professor at Yale and a fellow at the Hudson Institute, co-authored While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today (2000). The book argued in favor of a large increase in military spending and warned of future threats, including from a potential revival of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. Frederick and Robert Kagan, who is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, and their father, Donald, were all signatories to the Project for the New American Century manifesto, Rebuilding America's Defenses (2000).

It's a family of war-mongering vampires.

Kagan authored the "real Iraq Study Group" report as the American Enterprise Institute's rival to the Iraq Study Group report of James Baker and Lee H. Hamilton in December 2006. The AEI report, Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq, was released on January 5, 2007, and Kagan was said to have won over the ear of President George W. Bush, strongly influencing his subsequent "surge" plan for changing the course of the Iraq War. Along with retired General Jack Keane, retired Colonel Joel Armstrong, and retired Major Daniel Dwyer, Kagan is credited as one of the "intellectual architects" of the surge plan.
According to Foreign Policy magazine, Kagan's essay "We're Not the Soviets in Afghanistan" influenced the strategic thinking of US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, which reportedly influenced Gates's decision to support sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.

The wives get in on the grift: Robert Kagan is married to arch-neocon war-monger Victoria Nuland, who is the architect of the Maiden coup d'etat that replaced the elected government with a neocon selected strongman.

Meanwhile, Donald Kagan is married to Kimbery Kagan:

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Kagan has regularly contributed to daily reports by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The ISW was founded by his wife, Kimberly Kagan.

The Kagan clan wish you a Happy Hanukkah! And Merry Christmas, too!