The Pentagon is frustrated that the Obama administration doesn’t “seem to understand what military force can and cannot do.”

While elite schools confer many advantages on their graduates, they also wall them off from normal people and create an entitled, out-of-touch elite.

Barack Obama dressed as a pirate

One can almost hear the pitter-patter of American boots in the distance.

Mobile homes account for nearly half of all tornado deaths in the United States.

What ever became of Private Robert H. Lister of the 165th Infantry?

The CIA has declassified the last six documents from the World War One era.

America’s war colleges have some problems but we can’t close them.

Dave Schuler’s a hard man to rile. But stay away from him on tax day.

On Palm Sunday, French Christians stormed a museum and slashed Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ

Charles Krauthammer called Donald Trump the “Al Sharpton” of the GOP presidential primary contest

The Independent allows creative versions of the URLs on their stories.

An increasing number of bright observers are questioning the notion that everyone needs to go to college.

A special surprise was waiting this morning for those who subscribe to Jim Geraghty’s Jolt newsletter.

Donald Trump figures that, because he’s rich, he’s qualified to be president.

It may be time to change rules keeping women out of combat roles. But “fairness” isn’t the right question.

David Simon on the drug war, the underclass, and America’s seamy underbelly.

Demographic information about TV viewers is worthless to advertisers.

Hard as it is to believe, it’s been two decades since Tim Berners-Lee published the first website. They look a wee bit different these days.

Australia is the only major country with lower tax rates than the USA.

Presidential wannabe Jon Huntsman wrote some embarrassing letters about President Obama and the Clintons.

Francis Fukuyama: “In the developed world, we take the existence of government so much for granted that we sometimes forget how difficult it was to create.”

Donald Rumsfeld famously worked standing up. He was on to something.

While the pace of modern life is in many ways faster than ever, the golden age of speed was decades ago.

A version of a piece I wrote Wednesday, titled “NATO’s Death Greatly Exaggerated,” has finally been published at Foreign Policy under the title “Back in the Saddle: How Libya Helped NATO Get Its Groove Back.”

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 67-year-old husband says he and the 94-year-old actress are seeking to have a child through a surrogate.

Another celebrity trial shines a light on our bizarre justice system.

The law of war is not fully clear when applied to modern conflicts.

The Congressional Budget Office has come up with slightly different calculations of the savings created by the Obama-Boehner budget compromise.

Donald Trump is waiting to announce whether he’s running for president until after taping of “The Apprentice” concludes. Some thing NBC shouldn’t allow him to wait.

Mitt Romney forcefully said Tuesday night that he believes President Barack Obama was born in America and that “the citizenship test has been passed.”

Stephen Walt doesn’t expect Obama’s foreign policy to change along with the names on the org chart.

Andrew Bacevich refers to Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power as “the Three Harpies.”

Ann Coulter says its time for Birthers to shut up.

A 15-month-old was accidentally served a mixed drink instead of apple juice.

Whenever I despair at the current state of the Republican Party, I remind myself that things aren’t much better across the aisle.

The Japan nuclear meltdown has now topped the scale used to measure such things, reaching the same level as the Chernobyl disaster. It’s a stupid scale.

David Petraeus’ 1987 PhD dissertation:After all, if a country with relatively few public opinion concerns or moral compunctions about its tactics cannot beat a bunch of ill-equipped Afghan tribesmen, what does that say about the ability of the United States — with its domestic constraints, statutory limitations, moral inhibition, and zealous investigative reporters — to carry out a successful action against a guerrilla force?

My first piece for The American Conservative, which they’ve titled “War Isn’t for Everyone–The military needs civilian control, not citizen soldiers,” is in the May issue.

Should transparency stop at the water’s edge?

President Obama sees the golf course as the only place to escape the pressures of the job.

Public disclosure of campaign contributions makes it easier for incumbents to pressure backers of their opponent.

“Internet addiction” is a made-up malady.

Can most people learn the traits to be highly successful in business?

Agency heads are pleading President Obama’s case in advance of a shutdown.