James carafano biography

James Jay Carafano (born May 8, 1955) is the director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies and vice president of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at The Heritage Foundation.

Carafano is also an adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics.^[1]

Early life and education

Carafano was born in New York City, and raised in East Meadow, New York. He holds an M.A.

in British and early modern European history from Georgetown University, an M.A. in strategic studies from the U.S. War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Georgetown.^[2]

Career

Military and academic

Carafano served 25 years in the Army in Europe, South Korea, and the U.S., and he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel.^{[citation needed]} During that time, he served as head speech writer for the Army Chief of Staff and was the executive director of Joint Forc