Outside the Beltway

The Israeli military says they got their man after years of intelligence collection.

The leading scholar on the subject dissents.

A massive follow-up to the exploding communications devices.

My thoughts on what we know now.

A massive Israeli operation. To what end?

The election analyst is out on a limb with Trump.

The Secretary of the Navy supports the man who hired him. Who knew?

Where’s my $400,000 a month contract?

Israeli forces recovered their bodies.

His former National Security Advisor is not impressed.

Trumps undercuts current messaging & brings up past military service controversies

A third (and hopefully final) post on the matter.

Some additional (and longwinded) perspective.

I don’t think its stolen valor, but Walz has played it loose when referring to his service

A bold strike that threatens to escalate a regional war.

One of the most notorious war criminals in American history is dead at 80.

New information has changed my thinking on this.

An understandable but wrongheaded action.

A long overdue move.

The only let him go so long out of kindness I suppose.

Joy of four returned safe is mixed with the reality of scores of dead Palestinians.

Our natural instincts in hiring are wrong.

A small, conscript-driven military has very different training and doctrine than ours.

Are we avoiding facing hard truths?

An interesting analysis by The Economist.

War crime does pay.

Several glimmers of hope from the Ukraine funding bill.

The courts would likely allow restricting a Chinese data mining operation popular with American teenagers.

It must be another day that ends in a “Y”

Some initial thoughts.

A legendary soldier is gone at 97.

But humans made all the decisions that matter.

Another escalation in the longstanding “shadow war.”

A long overdue strengthening of a key alliance.

Putin ignored warnings from US intelligence.

Congressional Republicans are reminding voters of a dark hour in the Biden presidency.

The White House is doing damage control.

In the Trump era, it’s all politics.

Yet more evidence the man is unfit to serve as Commander-in-Chief.

It’s what we do. I mean this is what we do.

The Secretary of Defense has outlined the parameters.

A disturbing report.

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.

The inevitable response to attacks on international shipping.

“This is not the way it is supposed to go,” indeed.

A truly weird story.

The 21st century’s most brutal conflict and the laws of war.

Doing the right thing after doing the wrong thing.

400-plus general and flag officer promotions went through almost instantaneously.