Outside the Beltway

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.

WIth North Korea’s end of the year deadline for progress on talks quickly approaching, it is clear that the Trump Administration’s policies with regard to the DPRK have failed.

With the clock ticking down to the end of the year and a deadline imposed by the DPRK on talks with the U.S., the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy is in a shambles.

The Trump Administration’s strategy in North Korea is an utter failure.

Brexit seems like it’s inevitable at this point, and that could set in motion a series of events that would mean the end of the United Kingdom.

North Korea appears to be pulling back from any future negotiations over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, leaving the Trump Administration’s Korea policy in shambles.

An empty column with a seed of one good point buried in a bunch of nothing.

Faced with an election next week, Israel’s Prime Minister is pushing a settlement plan that would be an utter disaster.

Meanwhile, on the Korean Peninsula…..

President Trump continues to have an odd obsession with nuclear weapons.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s actions toward two Democratic Congresswomen,seemingly at the bidding of President Trump, is the latest example of the growing partisan divide over policy toward Israel.

Just over a week after Dan Coats announced he was stepping own as Director of National Intelligence, there are more shakeups at the top of the U.S. intelligence community.

President Trump’s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence is quite simply not qualified for the position he has been nominated to.

Dan Coats is stepping down as Director of National Intelligence, and President Trump wants to replace him with an inexperienced, obsequious toady.