James Carafano

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  • Oct 14, 2025
    President Trump’s peace plan for Gaza has opened with tremendous success, but challenges lay ahead. One of the truest truisms of war is the next war starts, or...
  • Oct 1, 2025
    Are we entering an era of strategic autonomy? I think so. Is that a good thing? Yep, I’m pretty sure it is. Is this concept really well understood? Ah, well, you got me there....
  • Apr 3, 2025
    America’s readiness for a potential World War III centers around maintaining a versatile and globally deployable army. The U.S. Army, under Trump’s presidency, has...
  • Mar 21, 2025
    Recently, voices in both South Korea and Poland have seriously suggested arming their countries with tactical nuclear weapons as a means of enhancing national...
  • Feb 15, 2025
    To begin with, NATO is in better shape today than the alliance was for most of the Cold War. Europeans need to stop fretting about the ability of the transatlantic...
  • Feb 3, 2025
    Trump is putting an end to America’s endless bankrolling of other countries, demanding instead that those countries step up and start pulling their own weight.