James Carafano

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James Carafano

James Jay Carafano (born May 8, 1955 in New York City ) is an American teacher of exterior security and international studies at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC and a writer .

Carafano is the author of numerous national defense, homeland security, and immigration books and studies relating specifically to the United States .

In 2003, he coined the term The long war ( The Long War Against Terrorism ) in a thesis on the war on terror:

"Before this is over, the time we will have devoted to defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam's forces in Iraq will be about the same as the Korean War within the War on Terrorism timeframe. .) in relation to the Cold War: As a relatively brief flash (...) within a long conflict. " .

Books

  • Private Sector, Public Wars: Contractors in Combat — Afghanistan, Iraq, and Future Conflicts (2008)
  • Mismanaging Mayhem: How Washington Responds to Crisis (2008)
  • GI Ingenuity: Improvisation, Technology and Winning World War II (2006)
  • Winning the Long War: Lessons from the Cold War for Defeating Terrorism and Preserving Freedom (2005)
  • Homeland Security (2005)
  • Independent Task Force Report, Emergency Responders: Drastically Underfunded, Dangerously Unprepared (2003)
  • Waltzing in to the Cold War (2002)
  • After D-Day (2000)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Trapped in the long war at Spiegel Online