James Callard
He is a frequent op-ed contributor to Colorado newspapers, High Country News, and his journal publication, "An Emerging Synthesis for a New Way of War: Combination Warfare and Future Innovation," was published in the Winter/Spring, 2002 issue of Georgetown Journal of International Affairs and cited in a Robert Kaplan article in the July/August 2003 issue of the Atlantic Monthly. He was a member of the John Kerry foreign policy task force during the 2004 presidential campaign. He was also state co-coordinator for Colorado Veterans for Kerry.
He is a 1973 graduate of the Air Force Academy and has Master of Arts degrees in history from Northern Arizona University and in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College.
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Articles by James Callard
July 28, 2011
The Bush team's real vulnerability was its B.M.D.-- Budgets of Mass
Destruction, which have recklessly imperiled the nation's future, with crazy tax-cutting and out-of-control spending.
Thomas Friedman
The real taxation and deficit issue Americans face is not the debt issue. It is how we p...
March 14, 2011
No Fly Zones have worked in the past to achieve limited objectives. They are part of higher order concepts called Strategic Control and Over-watch and primarily involve leveraging sensors and transparency to achieve political ends.
February 10, 2011
Congress and the Power of the Purse: buying the right stuff to project power and influence with more credibility and less vulnerability in the 21st century.
October 19, 2010
Fear Mongering is not governing and President Eisenhower got it right in the 1950s. He stood up to the forerunners of today´s Tea Party, who embraced fear mongering, pushed for a wider war and trashed FDR and the democrat´s domestic policy as socialism.
August 24, 2008
Turning the Page: Obama's New National Security Strategy
April 30, 2008
"As a Republican, I would never have believed that President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld would waste so many opportunities and so much of America´s reputation that they would rival Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy for the worst ...
August 16, 2007
"A time comes when silence is betrayal. And that time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.”
Martin Luther King, Jr., 4 April 1967
“The issue before us is not simply whether the United States should end the regime of Saddam Hussein, but whether we as a nation are prepared to physical...