James Carafano, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies and Director, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies
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(Note: Interview starts at 4:30)James Carafano, one of the nation’s leading experts in defense and homeland security, directs Heritage’s Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies.

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Carafano is an accomplished historian and teacher as well as a prolific writer and researcher on a fundamental constitutional duty of the federal government: to provide for the common defense.
He is a visiting professor at National Defense University and Georgetown University. He previously served as an assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., and as director of military studies at the Army’s Center of Military History.
As an expert on defense, intelligence and homeland security issues, Carafano has testified many times before Congress.” Find out more about Mr. Carafano at Heritage.org
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