Outside the Beltway

Two related questions.

The perils of speaking loudly while carrying a small stick.

The White House is doing damage control.

A truly weird story.

The BBC’s security correspondent thinks so.

After giving a softball interview, he apparently expected one in return.

A rare man and a rare milestone.

He’s turned Russia from a G-8 member to an international pariah.

Leaked intelligence intercepts take us inside the Ukrainian war room.

Putin is losing but no one is winning.

You be the judge.

The appetite for more resources approaches infinity.

We’re all gonna die, folks.

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

Can the unsustainable be sustained?

A phony annexation doesn’t hide that he’s badly losing his illegal war.

There’s plenty of reason for optimism.

A man made famous for discovering Iraq’s WMD program was virtually nonexistent is gone at 82.

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

The President commits a Kinsley gaffe.

Strikes near the Polish border show the real possibility of escalation.

The disintegrating military situation is leading to escalating brutality.

Putin is a monster, but he may also be just as irrational as the rest of us.

Addressing an analytical pet peeve (and, more importantly, correcting a mistake).

Deterring Russia is a matter of principle.

The much-anticipated escalation has happened. Now to see how the United States and its allies respond.

The Biden administration is close to repairing the damage Trump caused.

Our ostensibly ally is working with our chief adversary against our interests.

Russia may invade Ukraine again. The United States would prefer otherwise.

American cheese will henceforth be known as liberté cheese. And not because of the metric system.

A follow-up to yesterday’s analysis.

While well-intentioned, the Chairman’s actions were illegal and dangerous.

The answer seems simple but it isn’t.

It’s harder than a looks, especially given the limited size of the problem.

Iran’s top nuclear facility is offline again.

There’s more than enough opinion journalism.

The longtime public servant has died, aged 100.

A very low-spoilers review.

Women in national security circles love this woman.

The Natanz fuel enrichment site has been seriously damaged.

As scary as the Cold War was, it did reduce the silliness in American politics.

The President has reportedly invoked the Insurrection Act.

Policies towards Iran and NK are both a mess.

With one speech, Kim Jong-Un has demonstrated the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy to have been an utter failure.

Notwithstanding Russia’s weak position vis a vis the west, It’s Putin who seems to be winning.

New reports indicate that the North Koreans never took any of the steps to reduce their research programs that President Trump claimed they did.

The DPRK is promising a “gift” to the United States. The only question seems to be what form it will take.