Outside the Beltway

The cuts to Pentagon spending in the new debt deal are further revealing a split in the GOP over foreign policy and military spending.

The Air Force has suspended a course that teaches nuclear officers that Christian ethics permit them to do their job.

A legendary American soldier, General John Shalikashvili, has died.

The ban on gays openly serving in the military will end in September, nine months after President Obama signed the repeal into law.

The Army is fielding tiny blast sensors to gauge the effects of explosions on individual soldiers.

Howard Wiarda’s book on the National War College is based on his experiences from 1991 to 1996.

While it’s true that the South and the Heartland disproportionately contribute to our all-volunteer force, the notion that our forces are mostly Nebraska farmboys is false.

Leon Panetta has been brought in to oversee significant cuts to the U.S. Defense budget. Meanwhile, we’re in six wars.

The US handing Libya over to NATO is “like Beyonce saying she’s ceding control to Sasha Fierce!” – Jon Stewart

The draft ended in 1973. It’s effects still linger today.

One foreign policy analyst argues that President Obama should look to Nixon’s Vietnam withdrawal strategy for ideas on Afghanistan.

Rock Diaz likes to wear Army cammies and “Marine Corp” dog tags when he flies. The portly Long Island man has never served in the military.

Should President Obama do whatever General Petraeus wants in Afghanistan?

Congress had a chance to send a strong message to the Executive Branch today. They failed.

Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.

As the President prepares to announce his plans for the future in Afghanistan, a majority of Americans want the troops home now.

For the first time since the end of World War II, the GOP is wrestling with two diametrically opposed visions of foreign affairs.

Contrary to what Senator McCain, seeking realism in military policy does not make one an isolationist.

The White House’s assertion that Libya isn’t covered by the War Powers Act isn’t being accepted on Capitol Hill.

The Obama Administration tells Congress that it doesn’t need to comply with the War Powers Act because the Act does not apply to the mission in Libya.

Dennis Kucinich and nine other Members of Congress are suing the President. They won’t get very far.

David Rittgers, a legal policy analyst at the Cato Institute who served three tours in Afghanistan as a special forces officer, laments the militarization of police in America.

After a decade, the Army is reversing the most hideous decision in its long history.

The House GOP and the White House moved one step closer to a constitutional confrontation, but is it much ado about nothing?

Can gay soldiers now get married and receive the same federal benefits as heterosexuals?

Tammy Duckworth has resigned as Veterans Affairs assistant secretary and may make another bid for Congress.

Clearly there’s a large ambiguity in the Constitutional gap between the two separate war-related powers of Congress and the Executive. The WPA can be seen as an attempt to resolve it but can’t if it’s unconstitutional.

Two major American military installations are in serious danger. From rising water, not terrorist attacks.

Charging soldiers $200 for an extra bag on their way home for war? Really Delta?