Outside the Beltway

Until this year, being gay could get you kicked out of the military. Now, it comes with perks.

David C. Jones, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Carter and Reagan, has died.

Lieutenant General Michelle Johnson will be the first woman to lead a service academy.

TheTransportation Security Administration is expanding its purview to train stations and sporting events.

The Pentagon is considering making military retirees ineligible for civil service pensions.

The Defense Department would like to get a handle on how it spends its money by 2017 but the Navy won’t go along.

In the end, it doesn’t appear that the Boston Marathon bombings could have been prevented by law enforcement.

President Obama is doing precisely what Senator Obama warned us about.

The government contractor that conducted Edward Snowden’s background investigation faces criminal indictment.

Al Qaeda may be up to something, so take no chances.

A husband and wife do unrelated, and perfectly innocent, Google searches, and get a visit from the FBI.

Keeping 166 detainees in Gitmo costs taxpayers $454 million.

The military has declared that Playboy and Penthouse don’t violate its standards but banned them from its exchanges, anyway.

Megan Welter served as a Signal Corps officer in the Iraq War. Now, she’s an Arizona Cardinals cheerleader.

Bradley Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge against him, but is still likely to spend most of his life in prison.

The Defense Department may have found the money to furlough its civilian workers fewer than 11 days.

Bradley Manning will learn his fate at 1 pm tomorrow. He’s guilty.

The Army is fielding a new uniform to make ladies feel more soldierly.

Colonel Bud Day, who earned a Medal of Honor leading Vietnam POWs, had died, aged 88 years.

Sequestration is even dumber than we thought.

In response to North Korean saber rattling and the rise of China, Japan is reassessing it’s military posture

Anti-Assad forces are committing atrocities in Aleppo.

The US backed Egyptian government is massacring supporters of the ousted democratically elected government.

Chris Christie waded into the debate going on in the GOP over foreign policy. His comments were less than helpful to say the least.

Not surprisingly, the United States is not going to place aid to Egypt’s military in legal jeopardy by calling this month’s events a coup.

The two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are clashing on defense appropriations.

Lindsey Graham is playing cynical political games with a dangerous part of the world.

Think of it as the spy version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

Senators John McCain and Carl Levin have demanded answers from General Martin Dempsey on Syria. Can they handle the truth?

Last month, a retired Navy SEAL came out as transgender. Those still in uniform, however, must serve in silence.

Fort Belvoir blocked its workers from accessing the Washington Post website over concerns about classified information published there.

As many as 500 convicted al Qaeda terrorists were released Sunday night as part of a surge of violence that has killed thousands since April.

Some classes at the service academies have been canceled due to the sequester.