While America Sleeps

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While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today
Author Donald Kagan, Frederick Kagan
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
Publication date
September 2000
Publication placeUnited States
ISBN 0-312-20624-0

While America Sleeps is a book by Donald Kagan and Frederick Kagan, published September 2000. They argue for a policy of strengthening U.S. defense and a willingness to use force. Michael Lind has argued that the book contributed to neoconservative thought in U.S. foreign policy.

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Two similarly titled works were published around the time of World War II: While England Slept (1938), by future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Why England Slept (1940), by future U.S. President John F. Kennedy, at the time a Harvard University undergraduate student.

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