A nation must think before it acts.
James Jay Carafano
Senior Fellow, The Heritage Foundation
James Jay Carafano is a Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He is the coauthor of the forthcoming book, “Winning the Long War: Lessons from the Cold War for Defeating Terrorism and Preserving Freedom.” This essay is a condensed version of a paper that he presented at the FPRI’s December 2004 conference on “The Future of the Reserves and National Guard.”