Outside the Beltway

Granted, there are more than two. But from a political science/political history POV, these two stick out in my mind.

An exploding RV did substantial property damage but caused only minor injuries to bystanders.

73 cadets violated the honor code while taking an exam remotely.

Space Force took a year to decide what to call their uniformed members.

Our enemies are getting more brazen and sophisticated in their cyber warfare.

My latest for Defense One.

An American hero is gone.

Not another general.

My latest for Defense One.

Yet another retired general in the post would be a bad idea.

Women in national security circles love this woman.

Maybe it’s not going to be Michèle Flournoy after all.

She’d be America’s first woman intelligence chief.

The man behind the 1998 embassy attacks is dead.

” . . . to a second Trump Administration.” Get it?

The purge of non-loyalists continues.

A lame duck President has fired his Secretary of Defense and replaced him in probably violation of the law.

The Army is finally getting its World War II uniforms, one base at a time.

Because of course they are.

They are standing by as ordered.

Holding the president accountable is hard.

The venerable military newspaper lives to print another day.

The Toddler-in-Chief strikes again.

My latest for Defense One.

Yet more flouting of the rule of law by the Trump administration.

My latest for War on the Rocks.

Yet another call for military intervention in domestic politics.

My latest for Defense One.

The Russians are at it again, with the cooperation of the Trump administration and its enablers.

The National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and GHW Bush has died.

The reporting demonstrates the uncomfortable truth.

Shame on him for defending authoritarian actions.

The similarities are obvious. The differences are more important.

A thought experiment on what we have seen in Portland.

Pentagon officials are speaking out about the militarization of police.

Portland may be a preview of what’s to come.

How about crowd sourcing a timeline for all of Trump’s enablers?

The trend line shifted this week.

A researcher has documented 66 separate incidents since May 27.

The soldier who became a national figure for testifying against President Trump has had enough.

The Natanz fuel enrichment site has been seriously damaged.

The Daily on the Russia bounty story.

The President didn’t want to hear about bad behavior from Moscow, so he wasn’t told.

CNN has a lengthy, deeply reported piece on Trump’s phone calls to other heads of state.

The President should have known about the plot. There’s a good chance he didn’t.

As scary as the Cold War was, it did reduce the silliness in American politics.

The Administration has done nothing about intelligence reports of a grave escalation from Moscow.

The Army’s in a bind, because it’s way behind, and willing to make a deal.

The former NSC staffer who testified against Trump is at a career crossroads.

The line between “hero” and “victim” is blurry and rendered meaningless when the former is over-used