Bluegrass band Iron Horse presents their take on the Metallica classic “Enter Sandman.”

The destruction of Syria’s stockpiles will be slow and laborious even if all goes according to script.

The United States and Russia have agreed to the framework of a deal to turn over Syrian chemical weapons.

Jimmy Fallon’s 13 minute tribute to “Breaking Bad” is exceedingly well done

I’ve been up since 3 am and drinking since 6 pm, so my reaction to a presidential war speech at 9 am may not be the definitive word

My latest for The National Interest has posted.

“No More Baby Steps,” my first piece for Defense News, has posted.

f Assad is eating Cheerios, we’re going to take away his spoon and give him a fork.

President Obama is trying to launch a war but there’s a lot of competition for attention.

Washington Post Magazine profiles a local woman with a horrible secret: her father designed and ran Auschwitz.

The long investigation into rape at the Naval Academy has revealed some ugly truths.

Why are chemical weapons a “red line” in a war where so many have been killed?

Tommy Morrison, a boxing heavyweight champion from 1993 to 1995, has died at 44.

Score one for Team Bush?

Prism ain’t got nothin’ on the Hemisphere Project.

The pioneering journalist David Frost has died, aged 74 years.

Reports of Nelson Mandela’s death were premature.

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

Tim Tebow has gone through three NFL teams in a little over a year. Will there be a fourth?

The Maryland Air National Guard bombed Darlene’s Tavern. Oops.

Raymond Pritchett longs for the good old days of Tom Donilan, Hillary Clinton, and Leon Panetta.

Federal civilian employees are set to get a 34 percent pay raise. The mean old man in the White House is taking it away.

Humanitarian wars have their own grammar but not their own logic.

Could anyone have imagined a decade ago a scenario when the United States would go to war with France by our side and England on the sidelines?

Managers want their employees to get off email and pick up the phone.

The United States will go to war without UN or NATO approval.

We’re almost certainly going to launch punitive strikes against Syria. They’ll almost certainly be ineffective.

United States helped Saddam Hussein launch some of the worst chemical attacks in history against Iran.

John Kerry’s speech was the crossing of the Rubicon for US military action in Syria.

The Sacramento Bee has released this remarkable video of President Gerald Ford testifying about the assassination attempt by Lynnette “Squeaky” Fromme.

The award-winning political science group blog The Monkey Cage is moving under the masthead of the Washington Post:

Today will be my first day at Marine Command and Staff College.

Western military action in the Syrian civil war now appears likely.

The VA created an incentive system that rewarded fast, half-assed claim processing that denied complicated requests.

Virginia Tech English prof Steven Salaita implores us to “Stop saying ‘support the troops.'”

In both Egypt and Syria, it’s damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

As President Obama’s red line has been crossed more brazenly, he continues to sound reluctant to intervene in Syria while positioning forces to do just that.

Everyone knew the Fukushima disaster was bad. We likely underestimated how bad.

Walter Russell Mead explains why a well intentioned, carefully crafted and consistently pursued grand strategy failed.

Courts gave the NSA broad powers to intercept overseas communications of Americans . . . 30 years ago.

Joshua Foust and I discuss Chelsea Manning and other issues for BloggingHeadsTV.

Bradley Manning’s announcement that she wishes to begin living life as a woman poses some interesting legal questions.

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

Convicted felon Bradley Manning has announced that she’d like to spend her confinement as Chelsea Manning.

The Army and Navy are finally doing something about brass bloat.

West Point graduates account for nearly one in fifty deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mark Kroos plays both parts of “Dueling Banjos” on a double necked guitar

Bradley Manning will be spending a long time at Leavenworth.