Outside the Beltway

Corporal Jordan Spears died in a V-22 accident in operations against the Islamic State.

Apparently, the buck doesn’t stop in the Oval Office these days.

The American public’s support for the President’s war against ISIS has its limits.

The Khorasan Group is, functionally, al Qaeda. Or is it?

The Administration’s policy in the President’s war against ISIS has no coherent plan, and that virtually guarantees escalation.

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

As we head into a new conflict, perhaps we ought to give more thought to fiscal issues than the President is to overall strategy.

So much for the President’s promise about ‘no ground troops.’

The Army brass is worried about its diversity in critical mid-level posts.

It would appear that someone needs to introduce the Air Force to Article VI of the Constitution.

Massive US intervention has for now liberated Amerli, averting humanitarian disaster. Another crisis looms.

As talk begins of expanding the war against ISIS into Syria, it is becoming long past time for Congress to exercise its Constitutional function.

The General Accounting Office confirmed what seems clear to anyone who can read a statute.

For the second time in just over ten years, the United States is involved in military action in Iraq.

Add Libya to the list of the world’s trouble spots.

Things are getting serious in eastern Ukraine.

Another incident involving a Malaysia Airlines 777, but this one could be far more serious.

Did sending some of its workforce home without pay impact the work environment at the Defense Department? Duh.

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

The Iraqi government seems to be panicking.

It’s good that Bowe Bergdahl is free, but questions remain about how he went missing that need to be answered.

Once again, President Obama’s attempt to communicate a foreign policy vision falls short.

James Oliphant asks, “Why Hasn’t the GOP Treated Fort Hood Like Benghazi?”

Bureaucracy at its finest.

It appears what we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.

Thanks to Edward Snowden, the Washington Post and the Guardian are Pulitzer Prize winners.

Yesterday afternoon’s shooting spree at Fort Hood appears to be a related to post-traumatic stress.

The DOD says Walmart was violating its trademarks.

The Pentagon wants to continue receiving special war funding well into peacetime.

Barack Obama is no Jimmy Carter.

My latest for The National Interest, “Hagel’s Defense Cuts: The Least Bad Choice,” is out.

Hamid Karzai’s refusal to sign a new security agreement may result in all U.S. troops leaving Afghanistan by the end of the year.

Poking the eye of the institution that passes your budget is a bold choice.

My latest for The National Interest, “The U.S. Military’s Ethics Crisis,” has posted.