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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The breaking news keeps breaking when it comes to revelations surrounding the attacks and protests aimed at U.S. embassies going on throughout the Islamic world…. Read More
Understanding what Washington is up to is as simple as one-two-three: 1. Unacceptable Choices Under President Obama’s leadership, Americans have been presented two unacceptable choices…. Read More
We as a nation have to do a better job of serving those who served. There is a terrific group in Bozeman, Montana, that could… Read More
This year, we might get a less traditional view during the Independence Day celebration: The sun recently produced solar flares that could cause a northern-lights… Read More
He graduated from Annapolis. He flew the Douglas SBD “Dauntless” dive bomber, a plane that had a reputation for being slow and outmoded even before… Read More
ABC’s Jake Tapper recently ran Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to the ground on the issue of the automatic defense cuts that will impact on… Read More
The closer we get to the election, the more the White House rewrites the notion of “state secrets.” First there was the sneak-peek of Osama… Read More
As part of my teaching duties at West Point, I took cadets on a study tour of the World War II battlefields in Normandy, France…. Read More
Over the weekend, Hollywood brought back a popular TV horror show/soap opera that ended its run in 1971. That, however, is not the only flashback… Read More
Dark shadows and superheroes may be all the rage in theaters, but the real heroes are on freedom’s frontier, and what’s really scary are schemes… Read More
