Outside the Beltway

Shockingly, the Defense Department doesn’t keep up with former employees.

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

An unsavory practice that’s mostly legal.

They’re hitting civilian targets partly because they can’t hit military ones.

Eighteen HIMARS and what do you get? Years older and deeper in debt.

The Pentagon’s Inspector General is “concerned” over the pace of rejections.

It goes deeper than base names.

It’s much bigger than it appears.

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

A major milestone has been reached.

A cruel and insidious ‘solution’ to the border problem.

An embarrassing photo demonstrates the perils of leading the free world.

The US armed forces are looking for a few more good men and women.

The Nation is unusually divided and melancholy on its birthday.

Half a century have passed since a botched burglary changed history.

A long-overdue milestone has been reached.

The Biden Administration is constantly bragging about its actions against Russia. Is that wise?

The 45th President was a psychopath.

POLITICO has obtained what purports to be the 1st draft of the opinion.

A wackadoodle colonel is on his way out.

Whether deliberate or another ‘gaffe,’ he’s likely right.

The Defense Department shares the worst-kept secret about the war effort.

The US conducted a preemptive strike against the GRU’s systems.

The invasion has led to a series of proxy wars.

They have lost at least seven.

The service is taking a big risk but not without much discussion.

A trailblazing diplomat has died at 84.

Ukraine’s leader wants more help than he’s going to get.

No casualties, American or otherwise, have been reported.

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

Vladimir Putin is banning commodity exports.

The Russian leader is isolated and under tremendous pressure.

The American President is once again leading the free world.

Two unclassified after-action reports shine a new—if one-sided—light on the evacuation.

How do we know when our government is telling us the truth?

The American way of war kills a lot of noncombatants.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

The United States and its NATO allies are in a dangerous standoff.

Yes the riots were a disgrace but the Democrats . . . .

A lone judge has halted the military’s vaccine mandate.

Some 98 percent of active service members are now vaccinated. The rest will be discharged.

The Pentagon brass have defeated a supermajority coalition in Congress.

Trump’s last Secretary of Defense is being stymied by preclearance review.

The next boot has dropped.

The politicization of the virus continues.

The matter of Executive Privilege and former Presidents is settled law.

Resolving the legal issues will take time we don’t have.

A massive investigation into the Capitol riot looks at what came before, during, and after.

While 96 percent of airmen are in compliance, the service is about to get smaller.

The trailblazing soldier-statesman has died at 84.