James Jay Carafano is a Washington Examiner columnist. He is vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the Heritage Foundation and is and director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies.
By James Jay Carafano | 06/17/13 04:25 PM
"I have said this 38,000 times: ... This tragedy is not something that can be settled from the outside, and it's about damn well time that everybody understood that." — Lawrence Eagleburger, 1992 Then-Secretary of State Eagleburger spoke some hard truths about the Bosnian War. One year into...
By James Carafano | 06/09/13 04:40 PM
Norm Cota had to make a lot of tough calls. On D-Day, he brought his men across the beach that became known as "Bloody Omaha." Five months later, he led his exhausted division into the devastating battle of the Huertgen Forest. But the most difficult call of his career concerned Pvt. Eddie...
By James Carafano | 06/02/13 03:15 PM
The system was blinking red." That's how the 9/11 Commission Report described the intelligence community's state of concern shortly before the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. "Counterterrorism officials were receiving frequent but fragmentary reports about threats," the...
By James Carafano | 05/19/13 03:55 PM
In the 13 seconds between explosions at the Boston Marathon, dozens of the city's first responders were already on the move. Among them were Thomas Lee and David Carabin, veteran officers in the city's police force. Lee and Carabin had something in common beyond being two of "Boston's finest."...
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