Outside the Beltway

Congress had a chance to send a strong message to the Executive Branch today. They failed.

Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.

As the President prepares to announce his plans for the future in Afghanistan, a majority of Americans want the troops home now.

For the first time since the end of World War II, the GOP is wrestling with two diametrically opposed visions of foreign affairs.

Contrary to what Senator McCain, seeking realism in military policy does not make one an isolationist.

The White House’s assertion that Libya isn’t covered by the War Powers Act isn’t being accepted on Capitol Hill.

The Obama Administration tells Congress that it doesn’t need to comply with the War Powers Act because the Act does not apply to the mission in Libya.

Dennis Kucinich and nine other Members of Congress are suing the President. They won’t get very far.

David Rittgers, a legal policy analyst at the Cato Institute who served three tours in Afghanistan as a special forces officer, laments the militarization of police in America.

After a decade, the Army is reversing the most hideous decision in its long history.

The House GOP and the White House moved one step closer to a constitutional confrontation, but is it much ado about nothing?

Can gay soldiers now get married and receive the same federal benefits as heterosexuals?

Tammy Duckworth has resigned as Veterans Affairs assistant secretary and may make another bid for Congress.

Clearly there’s a large ambiguity in the Constitutional gap between the two separate war-related powers of Congress and the Executive. The WPA can be seen as an attempt to resolve it but can’t if it’s unconstitutional.

Two major American military installations are in serious danger. From rising water, not terrorist attacks.

Charging soldiers $200 for an extra bag on their way home for war? Really Delta?

Army Sergeant First Class Leroy Arthur Petry will become the ninth Medal of Honor recipient for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan–and one of only two who lived to tell the tale.

This is a male latrine, there shouldn’t be any drawings of dicks.

Commander Dave Koss, the head of the Navy’s Blue Angels, has “voluntarily” resigned after repeated unsafe maneuvers.

Allen West says Congressmen who oppose the war in Afghanistan should go over and “get shot at a few times and maybe they’d have a different opinion.”

The House of Representatives has voted 416-5 for a resolution prohibiting President Obama from sending ground troops to Libya

The Navy’s director of warfare integration says China is a “smart and learning enemy.”

It has now been 60 days since American involvement in Libya commenced. Congress has failed to act, and that’s their fault.

General Donn Starry and the Army of the 1970s.

Video of the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden

Is the war in Libya illegal?

Technology has saved the lives of countless American soldiers. But it’s made going to war easier.

The Navy is considering allowing its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages once “Dont ask, Don’t tell” ends.

Why would David Petraeus take the thankless job of running the CIA?

Congress is getting complaints that calling the Osama raid “Geronimo” is offensive to Indians.

There has been some buzz on the national security backchannels that a heretofore secret “stealth” helicopter was used in the SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout.

CIA director Panetta to take over Pentagon; Petraeus to be nominated for CIA