Outside the Beltway

Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.

Donald Trump started out his campaign by telling us that the American dream is dead, and he returned to those dark and pessimistic themes in his acceptance speech last night.00

A night of terror mars Bastille Day celebrations in France.

President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.

The Dallas shooting spree ended with police killing the perpetrator with a drone. I’m okay with that.

American forces will continue to stay in Afghanistan well after Barack Obama leaves office thanks to a new policy announced today.

Hillary Clinton’s extreme carelessness with classified information probably won’t cost her the election, but it should.

Marines, especially female Marines, will be allowed to be heavier in the new year.

The presumptive Democratic nominee for president won’t be going to jail. But we knew that.

The wave of Ramadan attacks continues, including a strike near the second holiest site in Islam.

My latest for The National Interest has posted.

A third major terrorist attack inside of a week.

In a sign that the ongoing F.B.I. investigation into her use of a private email server and handling of classified information is coming to an end, the former Secretary of State was interviewed by Federal Agents today.

A third major ISIS-inspired or planned attack in three weeks.

A new poll finds strong public support for enhanced background checks and barring people on Federal watch lists from purchasing weapons.

Unlike previous civil rights changes, this one came without much fanfare, fight, or even discussion.

A massive attack hits Istanbul’s airport.

As with each previous committee that investigated the 2012 attack on the U.S outpost in Benghazi, the House Select Committee finds that mistakes were made but no evidence of wrongdoing or cover-ups.

The Marine Corps has removed the word “man” from nineteen of its military occupation specialty titles, leaving only a handful of iconic instances intact.

Donald Trump has had a bad June, and it’s showing in the poll numbers.

A revered Republican foreign policy guru has endorsed the Democratic nominee for president.

Stopping the next Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Syed Farook, or Omar Mateen is likely to be a lot more difficult than the politicians on either side of the aisle are leading us to believe.

As expected, the Senate rejected four gun control measures introduced in the wake of the attack in Orlando.

Bernie Sanders doesn’t seem to realize that the political world has already moved past the race for the Democratic nomination.

Donald Trump’s latest outbursts are causing Republicans to move away from him faster than you can say “electoral disaster.”

The Senate has passed an amendment to a military spending bill that would require women to register for the draft.

Donald Trump has insinuated that President Obama is not fighting the War On Terror aggressively because he somehow identifies with terrorists.

Donald Trump responded to the attack on the Pulse nightclub by renewing his call to ban members of an entire religion from coming to the United States.

An overnight shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida has left 20 people dead and at least 42 injured.

A commenter asks what the consequences ought be for Clinton’s transgressions.

On his trip to Hanoi, President announced the latest sign that the Vietnam War is finally something both nations have manged to put behind them.

A respected scholar has an interesting suggestion for fighting the Forever War.

Bowe Bergdahl’s Court Martial has been delayed until 2017, which raises the possibility that comments by Donald Trump could result in Bergdahl getting off scot-free.

The walk backs begin.

Should we treat terrorists as trolls?

As expected, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both scored big wins in Arizona, while Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders both continued to win caucus states.

A series of bomb attacks across Brussels has left at least 26 dead, and dozens more injured.

Advisers? Donald Trump doesn’t need no stinkin’ advisers.

My latest for War on The Rocks, “Professional Military Education and the Rigor Problem, has posted.

To the surprise of many, Russia’s President announced that Russia would begin winding down its six month old intervention in Syria.

More saber rattling from Pyongyang.

My latest for RealClearDefense, “The Forgotten Veterans of Desert Storm,” has posted. The headline belies the argument.

A month after raising $6,000,000 for “the troops,,” questions are being asked about where the money Donald Trump raised for veterans causes actually is at this point.

The U.S. is poised to send troops to the front lines of yet another war we have no reason to be involved in.