James Jay Carafano, a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges, is The Heritage Foundation’s vice president for foreign and defense policy studies, E. W. Richardson fellow, and director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies. Read his research.
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President Joe Biden and Russian bad boy Vladimir Putin have now had their two-hour virtual parley about the Ukraine crisis. Is there any clear sense on… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Rather than spending trillions that we do not have and making promises that cannot be kept, Congress and the administration should focus on implementing policies… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visited “stalwart NATO ally” Romania on Oct. 20 to discuss a range of key bilateral issues. Austin noted that the two nations… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Every year for decades, Congress has passed a National Defense Authorization Act. This year will likely be no different, but there’s a provision in this… Read More
InternationalCommentary
President Joe Biden gave a speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that was guaranteed to delight any globalist. Suffused with promises of multinational cooperation, it… Read More
SecurityCommentary
It’s 20 years after 9/11, and you might be less safe than you were 20 years ago. The Taliban—which were the people that really allowed… Read More
SecurityCommentary
President Joe Biden is doing the unthinkable. On the 20th anniversary of the dark day that terrorists struck New York City and Washington, D.C., he—more… Read More
SecurityCommentary
President Joe Biden must have ignored sound military advice in abandoning Afghanistan. No person who graduated boot camp would have planned a military operation like… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The blame game continues. In his latest speech on the unfolding chaos in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden fingered the terrorist group ISIS-K for the bombing at the… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
President Joe Biden stepped out of the Oval Office on Friday and delivered yet another defense of his Afghanistan withdrawal. For those convinced he’s in… Read More
