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Articles by James Carafano

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Morning Bell: Obama Leaves Libya Questions Unanswered

James Carafano | March 29, 2011

Last night, nine days after U.S. military operations against Muammar Qadhafi began, President Barack Obama took to the stage at the National Defense University to… Read More

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President Obama Gives Last Week’s Speech

James Carafano | March 28, 2011

Tonight, the president gave a long series of remarks that might have been appropriate last week when the administration kicked-off Operation Odyssey Dawn—explaining why US… Read More

Mission Impossible to Define

James Carafano | March 24, 2011

The Daily Caller reports: “Some Democratic advocates are already touting President Barack Obama’s Libyan intervention as a success, but others, including Democratic foreign-policy gurus, worry… Read More

Morning Bell: Spectator-in-Chief

James Carafano | March 21, 2011

Yesterday, American B-2 stealth bombers, F-16s, F-15s, and Harrier attack jets bombed both Libyan air and ground defenses including Colonel Muammar Qadhafi’s massive residential compound… Read More

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Earthquake and Tsunami Threaten Disaster Across Asia

James Carafano | March 11, 2011

Friday morning, a massive earthquake hit Japan and spawned a massive tsunami that is sweeping across the Pacific, requiring evacuation along the Hawaiian coast. This… Read More

Hearings about Helping, Not Hurting Americans

James Carafano | March 10, 2011

In one of the most poignant moments of the Homeland Security hearings chaired by Congressman Peter King (R–NY), Congressman Keith Ellison (D–MN) broke down during his… Read More

House Strikes Out in Disciplining Security Spending

James Carafano | February 17, 2011

In voting to prop up funding for COPS and fire grants—two discredited programs that fail to deliver any bang for our security bucks—the House calls… Read More

Egypt’s End of the Beginning

James Carafano | February 11, 2011

At 11:34 EST, Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman announced, “In these grave circumstances that the country is passing through, President Hosni Mubarak has decided to… Read More

White House Flunks Reality Check

James Carafano | February 03, 2011

History is not a strong point of this Administration. Last month it was President Obama declaring another “sputnik moment” for America–only to rattle off a… Read More

More Carter Redux in the Middle East

James Carafano | January 30, 2011

From the outset of the Obama presidency and the emergence of the Obama Doctrine, the similarities between this Administration and that of Jimmy Carter have… Read More

Obama Doctrine is Failing in the Middle East

James Carafano | January 29, 2011

The Middle East was meant to be the crowning achievement of the Obama Doctrine. Once in the White House, President Obama focused laser-like on a… Read More

SOTU: 1 Out of 5 On Foreign Policy

James Carafano | January 26, 2011

Before the State of the Union address, Heritage Foundation scholars laid out five foreign policy and national security commitments that needed to be in the… Read More

Dragon Week: Information Warfare in the Information Age

James Carafano | January 21, 2011

Writing in 1995, before anyone in the West thought all that much about war online, Major General Wang Pufeng (the former Director of the Strategy… Read More

Beijing Drops the Other Shoe?

James Carafano | January 05, 2011

Yesterday, Heritage China expert Dean Cheng mused that something must be up. He wrote, “As the world rang in 2011, one of the lesser noticed… Read More

Al-Qaeda’s End?

James Carafano | December 29, 2010

Danish authorities have just sunk another plot to strike the West. According to press reports, “Denmark’s intelligence service says it has arrested four people plotting… Read More

Save Our All-Volunteer Military

James Carafano | December 23, 2010

Inflation and recession at home. Humiliation abroad. In the wake of the Vietnam War, America was foundering. Yet, the seeds of a national resurgence had… Read More

The Unsurprising Terrorist Plot to Poison Our Food

James Carafano | December 21, 2010

What to make of breaking news? “CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports the latest terror attack to America involves the possible use of… Read More

More Reasons Not to Trust Russia on New START

James Carafano | December 15, 2010

Amid the Administration’s full-court press to get the Senate to consent to ratify New START, a strategic offensive arms control treaty with the Russian Federation,… Read More

Terrorists Strike at Sweden: What about US?

James Carafano | December 13, 2010

Yes, the terrorists are trying to kill us. Breaking news from the Christian Science Monitor reports, “Two explosions rocked central Stockholm Saturday evening in what… Read More

Top 10 Reasons to NOT Put Defense Spending ‘On the Table’

James Carafano | December 01, 2010

Getting America’s fiscal house in order ought to be a priority, but it should not come at the expense of protecting the American people. Here… Read More

Obama Hit by History

James Carafano | November 30, 2010

When President Obama entered office he adopted a doctrine toward national security that mirrored President Jimmy Carter’s reliance on diplomacy and the United Nations. America’s… Read More

Don’t Look at Pentagon Budget to Cut Back on Federal Spending

James Carafano | November 24, 2010

Hope is not a strategy. Last month’s elections made that clear. Through the year, polls consistently revealed the unpopularity of Obamacare, deep concern about excessive… Read More

Top 10 Reasons Why New START Is A Non-Starter

James Carafano | November 23, 2010

10. An Unreliable Nuclear Arsenal Is No Deterrent. New START offers no assurance that the U.S. nuclear force will be an effective deterrent in the… Read More

Questions CNN Did Not Ask on New START

James Carafano | November 17, 2010

News Flash: “Nearly three out of four Americans say lawmakers should ratify a nuclear treaty with Russia that’s stalled in the Senate, according to a… Read More

Screaming About Screening

James Carafano | November 17, 2010

There is a lesson to be learned in the tempest against TSA: be careful what you ask for. After the underwear bomber tried to take… Read More

Mystery Missile Monday—One Day It Won’t Be Nothin’

James Carafano | November 12, 2010

The Internet went apoplectic speculating on the “mystery missile” spotted Monday off the coast of California. The military concluded Wednesday that the long “contrail,” the… Read More

Funding Defense Should Not Be a Political Game

James Carafano | October 19, 2010

Playing politics with national security is reprehensible. But it’s nothing new. In 1794, Congress passed a law authorizing construction of ships that would form the… Read More

DOD Buzz Dumbs Down Defense Debate

James Carafano | October 18, 2010

Colin Clark misses the mark in his latest piece for DOD Buzz. Even the title, “GOP To Tea Party: Don’t Cut Defense,” is wrong. The… Read More

Jones Resigns NSC. Nothing Changes.

James Carafano | October 08, 2010

If you change the cast of a soap opera and the script is the same, the next episode is not much different than the last…. Read More

Jimmy Carter’s National Security Policies—The Sequel?

James Carafano | September 29, 2010

They remade the Brady Bunch, Charlie’s Angels, and The A-Team—why not replay the presidency of Jimmy Carter? The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund joined the… Read More

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