James Jay Carafano is a defense and national security expert at The Heritage Foundation, where he currently is special counselor to the president, the E.W. Richardson fellow for international engagement, and chairman of the Combating Antisemitism Task Force. Read his research.
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni delivered a Christmas present earlier this month to a free and prosperous Europe when she dumped Italy’s deal with China on its Belt and Road… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Strategic leadership is about action—and rhetoric. When they match, history is made. When they don’t, it’s just a speech that’s soon to be forgotten. No… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Tehran has an endgame in sight: Use the Israel-Hamas war to establish Iran as a declared nuclear weapon state. The likelihood that Hamas orchestrated the… Read More
SocietyCommentary
In the fight between Elon Musk and the Anti-Defamation League, Americans are the biggest losers. Antisemitism and woke politics are both cancers eating away at… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Taylor Swift may be the hottest ticket this summer, but her listeners don’t share her country roots. That space has been captured by a series… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Policymakers in Washington and Seoul rightly suspect that by the 70th anniversary of Korean-American relations, the agenda for the two nations is way more than… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Media reports on the aftermath of a massive earthquake in Turkey (which now has the official name of Türkiye) look and sound as devastating as that… Read More
SecurityCommentary
It might not have been a Sputnik moment, but Americans were unsettled to wake up to the news that a Chinese surveillance balloon was sailing overhead, violating U.S…. Read More
SecurityCommentary
In the wake of China admitting today that a large surveillance balloon flying over the U.S. was its own, critical questions arise. What is China… Read More
SecurityCommentary
China is being racked by popular protests on a scale not seen since Tiananmen Square in 1989. But how much have the demonstrations made the regime rethink its autocratic… Read More
