Outside the Beltway

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

My latest for Defense One has published.

My latest at War on the Rocks.

How to translate understandable frustration at injustice into tangible reform?

Yet again, this administration puts Trump’s political fortunes ahead of the national interest.

The President has reportedly invoked the Insurrection Act.

A stroll down memory lane.

Are those who die in our wars more deserving than those who die in our stores?

A look at the employment records of one of the men involved in the Ahmaud Arbery shooting.

A hero of the Afghan War has succumbed to cancer, aged 41.

Some global comparisons.

The founder of Small Wars Journal passed Saturday.

No. Just no.

Thomas Modly, the acting Secretary of the Navy, has embarrassed himself and must go.

A series of Friday night firings.

A public health crisis turns into a public relations crisis.

We’re passing grim milestones on a daily basis.

Despite our poor showing against COVID-19, we have the best infrastructure in place.

Dueling Washington Post op-eds are sowing confusion.

Whocouldanode?

A proportional response.

If a global pandemic and economic crisis weren’t enough excitement . . . .

As if the country needed more turmoil.

Another milestone has been reached.

It’s not clear what has been achieved.

Because you needed one more thing to worry about.

Moscow helped Trump in 2016. Do they want him back?

Speaking of xenophobia.