Outside the Beltway

The ousting of top Defense leaders continues.

Versus strait rhetoric.

Also, this Just In: WWII Was 80 Years Ago

The flailing president.

The President has threatened massive war crimes.

A great thing, precipitated by a questionable thing.

A podcast recommendation.

So much winning.

Undermining the professionalism of the officer corps.

It’s a real mystery…

There’s still no strategy.

At a time of increased terrorist threat, look who is in charge of key departments.

Maybe talks, but maybe not?

How it started and how it’s going.

STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST, naturally.

The Art of the Deal in action.

Energy prices are likely to be affected for some time.

Why not both?

“It takes money to kill bad guys.”

That’s not how any of this works.

Or “Things to do while the military has an excursion.”

An IR theory that is often misapplied in my view (especially by certain kinds of practitioners).

Dear Leader says so.

Plus: the Strait of Hormuz.

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Lethality.

An update from the Commander-in-Chief.

Is no one thinking about the end state?

Oil prices are sharply up.

Memes, movies, TV shows, and actual war. One of these things is not like the other.

They have a right to do anything we can’t stop them from doing.

Or, why having simpletons in charge is a bad idea.

Are our columnists learning? (I think you know the answer).

The peace president in action.

The nature of war does not change; only its character.

Shooting down cheap drones with expensive missiles is problematic in more ways than one.

Usually president care what the public thinks, especially at times of major military action. Not this time.

Trump’s love of the unilateral is on display with serious consequences.

“Major combat operations” are underway.

Will POTUS listen?

You’re going to be finding out over the next, maybe, 10 days. 10 to 15 days, pretty much, maximum.

An absurd matter has come to its rightful conclusion.

Some criminologists have identified a new trend.

Other schools are likely to follow.

We are not being governed by smart people.

The long-awaited document is less disruptive than it appears on the surface.

A slow-moving disaster.

Just harness Senator Mullin’s views on regime change in Iran.

The NYT reports about likely war crimes by US forces.

The quest for the elusive Peace Prize continues.