David Grantham
David A. Grantham, Ph.D., is an NCPA senior fellow and project manager for the NCPA's Financial Crisis Initiative. He is an expert in U.S. national security issues and Latin American and Middle Eastern politics and economy. Dr. Grantham’s work has been featured in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, History Compass, Townhall and the Daily Caller, among others, and is also a graduate of the University of Texas’ Arabic Summer Language Institute.
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Category Archives: Latin America
Terrorism in Latin America (Part One): The Infiltration of Islamic Extremists
“The threat from Islamic extremists in Latin America remains an overlooked aspect of U.S. national security strategy. And the threat is worsening – not “waning” as the Obama administration claimed about Iran in 2013. The Trump administration should shift U.S. priorities in Latin … Continue reading
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America Should Be Ready, Venezuela Might Become the Next Syria
This originally appeared in Townhall. “Said former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Nazi buildup in Europe: “When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies … Continue reading
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Why Are We Ignoring Jihadists in Latin America
This originally appeared in Townhall: “Famed Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz said Obama will go down in history as the worst foreign policy president of all time, after the U.S. chose to abstain in the U.N. Security Council vote on … Continue reading
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The Military, Nation-Building and Counterterrorism in Africa
“History does not repeat itself, as the old adage goes, but it surely rhymes. What began in 2002 as an antiterrorism assistance program for a handful of impoverished African countries at risk from violent extremist groups has since expanded into the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership. … Continue reading
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Free Enterprise Is National Security
This originally appeared in my Townhall Column: “I am fond of saying the president seems to work harder for our adversaries than the country that elected him. But his myopic focus on appeasing the Cuban government has reached a level that … Continue reading
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Where is Our Strategy?
New reports surface weekly that remind readers of the Obama administration’s mind-numbing, even nonsensical approach to U.S. national security. The president remains determined to close Gitmo and move those prisoners to U.S. soil. He already submitted a plan to congress in … Continue reading
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Obama announces Gitmo appeasement plan
President Obama’s plan to close the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention facility is ill advised and is reflective of someone who is disconnected from the realities of global Islamic jihadism. Campaign promises should not form the basis for national security policy. The conflagration … Continue reading
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Obama to visit Cuba and nothing will change
I have explained before that President Obama’s decision to restore diplomatic relations with Communist Cuba will not restore America’s credibility in the region. The president clings to a Cold War notion that Cuba represents Latin America in the 21st century, … Continue reading
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