Outside the Beltway

President Obama’s confrontational approach to opponents of the Iran Nuclear Deal ignores legitimate questions.

Lindsey Graham says that, if elected president, he would summarily kill anyone thinking about joining ISIS.

Marco Rubio is often described as one of the GOP’s leaders on foreign policy, but a close look reveals a decided lack of substance.

Most in the international relations community are not amused by the president’s National Security Strategy.

For a year that started out with regaining long-lost territory in Ukraine, 2014 is not ending so well for Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

The shocking has become routine. We’re no safer because of it.

You thought the American combat role in Afghanistan would end on December 31st? Think again.

The CIA has always separated its core spying and analysis functions; that may soon change.

The Burning Man Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The war against ISIS continues to silently escalate, with little input from the people’s representatives in Congress.

President Obama has opened a new front in his “war” against ISIS

Dan Froomkin says Obama is as bad as Bush, if not worse.

Things are getting serious in eastern Ukraine.

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

The Iraqi government seems to be panicking.

The latest chapter in an all too familiar story.

The search for more than 200 missing Nigerian schoolgirls is not going well, and part of the blame lies with the Nigerian government.

Hubris.

Not every tragedy can be resolved with a military response.

President Obama’s new rules for killing Americans with drones are proving inconvenient.

The US military needs to cull and standardize its bloated award system.

Apple’s “1984” Super Bowl commercial ran only once, but it remains in a class by itself.

The Iraqis need to learn to govern themselves, and conservatives blaming President Obama for renewed violence need a history lesson.

Jeff Bezos’s latest idea may never get off the ground, but it sure is interesting.

The world changed significantly twelve years ago today. Will it ever change back even a little bit?

The president’s public dithering on Syria is drawing jeers from friend and foe alike.

A headline I never thought I’d see: “Yemen Asks U.S. For Drones To Fight Al Qaeda”

The Air Force can’t find enough people to volunteer to fly remote controlled planes.

In response to North Korean saber rattling and the rise of China, Japan is reassessing it’s military posture

The two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are clashing on defense appropriations.

An overweight Republican from the northeast is thinking about running for president. No, not that one.

The Navy is building a ridiculously expensive robot spy plane.

Opponents of immigration reform are using “border security” as a shield to hide their true desire to kill the very idea of immigration reform.

Thanks to one question from one Senator, we learned yesterday that the FBI has used surveillance drones inside the United States.

Going from flying a real airplane to operating a drone in Alamagordo sucks.

If one is going to be in government, one ought to take governing seriously.