Outside the Beltway

For some reason, President Obama wants to arm so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels.

Is ISIS about to make the situation in the Levant even worse?

Native American names are everywhere.

When it comes to Iraq, the media only seems to be giving Americans one side of the story.

My latest for The Hill, co-authored with Butch Bracknell: “Explaining the Sinclair demotion.”

My latest for The National Interest, “Neoconservatives, the Iraq Debate and Ad Hominem Attacks,” has posted.

The right to fly can’t be denied on mere whim.

The evidence is clear. When it comes to the ability to handle foreign crises, the President has lost the public’s confidence.

The Kentucky Senator and former Vice-President are at the front of a battle that will unfold inside the GOP as we head toward 2016.

Retired General Keith Alexander is hawking his services to banks at princely sums.

Stephanie Kwolek was looking for a way to improve tires. She invented a life-saving material.

Some questions for the Republicans who would be President about the actions of the last Republican President.

The Army is sending a strong message on sexual assault. It picked the wrong poster boy.

Recent events in Iraq have opened up old domestic political arguments in the United States.

More bad poll numbers for the President.

If President Obama does decide to use military force in Iraq, he should be required to seek Congressional approval beforehand.

Ahmed Abu Kattalah, the alleged ringleader of the September 2012 attack in Benghazi, has been arrested.

Will ISIS be able to consolidate and hold the territory it’s taken in Iraq?

Iraq is falling apart for reasons that have nothing to do with President Obama or his policies.

It’s sure beginning to look like a civil war in Iraq, albeit a rather one sided one at the moment.

Retired Marine lawyer Butch Bracknell and I tackle the subject for The Hill.

My latest for War on the Rocks, “HAGEL: CLIMBING OUT FROM UNDER THE BUS,” has posted.

Things only seem to be getting worse in Iraq.

Thanks largely to Administration mistakes, the Bergdahl deal is not going over well.

Mostly because of politics, the hopes of some and fears of others will never be realized.

There’s essentially no analogue in the civilian justice system. Here’s why.

The President’s well-intentioned campaign against military sex crimes has backfired.

Trying to make some sense out of a week of outrage.

For the fourth time in 30 years, an American President spoke at Normandy to honor a day of sacrifice and triumph.

If someone had seen the signals, perhaps Bowe Bergdahl never would’ve wandered off base and gotten captured.

Barring shocking developments, General Joe Dunford will be the 36th Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Good intentions and good results aside, the President’s disrespect for the Rule Of Law should concern everyone.

Contrary to the oft-repeated slogan, the United States has negotiated with terrorists before. And we will do it again.

There’s little evidence for the conservative contention that the President has damaged America’s position in the world.