Articles by James Carafano

 

Warriors Coming Home: From the Front Lines to Fly Fishing

James Carafano | July 25, 2012

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

 

July 4 Fireworks: A Forecast of Doom?

James Carafano | July 04, 2012

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

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Who Is John Powers?

James Carafano | June 14, 2012

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

 

Popcorn and Bullets

James Carafano | June 04, 2012

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

 

Somebody Watched Too Many Episodes of ‘The West Wing’

James Carafano | May 29, 2012

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

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Morning Bell: Making Memorial Day Make a Difference

James Carafano | May 28, 2012

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

 

The Real Dark Shadow: Carter’s Foreign Policy Legacy

James Carafano | May 14, 2012

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

 

Superheroes Rule in Theaters, but Real Heroes Are on Freedom’s Frontier

James Carafano | May 14, 2012

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

 

Obama’s Afghanistan Misstep

James Carafano | May 03, 2012

Mark McKinnon, a former Bush advisor, doesn’t get it. “GOP Attacks on Obama’s bin Laden Ad Misguided,” declares his piece in the Daily Beast. Of… Read More

 

Obama’s Afghanistan Visit Timed Conveniently for Campaign Impact

James Carafano | May 01, 2012

This week, the President marked the death of Osama bin Laden with a self-congratulatory campaign ad. If Lincoln had spent the entire Gettysburg Address talking… Read More

 

Taking on the Taliban Online

James Carafano | April 27, 2012

Somebody hacked a Taliban website. Big surprise. Actually, no surprise. No surprise that the Taliban and other terrorists groups are online. When the issues of… Read More

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Cyber Barbarians at the Gates

James Carafano | April 27, 2012

We are being attacked on all sides—and it is not the hacker in the basement we need to worry about most. It is the cyber… Read More

 

Iran: Truth or Dare for Ahmadinejad

James Carafano | April 10, 2012

According to press accounts, the Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that “Iran has enough funds to withstand a total embargo on its oil sales for… Read More

 

Commerce Case Study: Cyberstupid

James Carafano | April 09, 2012

It would be funny if it all wasn’t so tragic. According to The Washington Post, an agency in the Department of Commerce was so ravaged… Read More

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On the Outpost of Sovereignty at Sea

James Carafano | March 31, 2012

A driving, wind-swept rain pummels the deck of the USCG Stratton. A typical day at sea for the Coast Guard’s newest National Security Cutter when… Read More

 

Defending Paul Ryan on Defense

James Carafano | March 30, 2012

Representative Paul Ryan (R–WI) generated a few headlines defending his defense budget. When pressed about why he wanted to invest more in the military than… Read More

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Time to Take Down TSA

James Carafano | March 28, 2012

Want to cut government spending? Without compromising security? The Ryan budget is a good start, but we can do more. How about rethinking the Transportation… Read More

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Washington Only Weapon More Deadly Than a Nuke

James Carafano | March 28, 2012

Nuclear weapons are not much of a worry: That’s the tenor of an AP story reporting on a U.S. government study that looked at the… Read More

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Definition of a Mic Gaffe: Politician Telling the Truth

James Carafano | March 28, 2012

On August 11, 1984, President Ronald Reagan joked over a “hot” mic, “My fellows Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I have… Read More

 

Remembering Congressional Medal of Honor Day

James Carafano | March 25, 2012

Some never stop giving back. March 25 is Congressional Medal of Honor Day. Perhaps most remarkable and often unremarked is that what truly marks the… Read More

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Iran Has Its Eye on the Big Apple

James Carafano | March 22, 2012

Snap a few pics. Grab a falafel. Plan a terrorist attack. Eileen Sullivan reports for the Associated Press that the New York City Police Department… Read More

 

Meet Al-Nusra, Another Bin Laden Wannabe Group

James Carafano | March 22, 2012

The group that claimed responsibility for a double-suicide bombing that killed 27 people in Syria is widely regarded as a front organization for al-Qaeda in… Read More

 

Terrorist Killing Spree — It Could Happen Here

James Carafano | March 21, 2012

A wannabe al-Qaeda went on a killing spree in France. Don’t breathe a sigh of relief because it happened over there. It can happen here…. Read More

 

Does Fareed Read?

James Carafano | March 16, 2012

How to handle Iran? Writing in The Washington Post, columnist Fareed Zakaria complains that “Krauthammer, the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute and others denounce… Read More

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Wiki Worries

James Carafano | March 16, 2012

Oops! In order to prevent leaks over the trial of alleged Wiki-leaker Bradley Manning, e-mail filtering for government prosecutors inadvertently screened out messages from the… Read More

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Cornering #Kony

James Carafano | March 13, 2012

While the rest of us were watching YouTube about the infamous Ugandan militia leader Joseph Kony, someone was actually doing something about Kony and the… Read More

 

A Day Without Twitter?

James Carafano | March 12, 2012

Reporters Without Borders notes that today is World Day Against Cyber-Censorship. For some time now, the organization has been highlighting cases of oppression and abuse… Read More

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Japan: One Year Later

James Carafano | March 12, 2012

Yesterday, Japan remembered. On March 11, 2011, an earthquake rocked the coast of Japan. The quake generated the largest recorded tsunami in modern Japanese history,… Read More

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#Kony

James Carafano | March 09, 2012

A 30-minute documentary on the Lord’s Resistance Army, a violent militia in Uganda led by the outlaw Joseph Kony, has gone viral. A day after… Read More

 

End Game in Iran

James Carafano | March 09, 2012

It is past the time that Washington will be able to find a means to resolve the confrontation with Iran that is “all gain, no… Read More