Outside the Beltway

The United States will go to war without UN or NATO approval.

The White House confirmed today that the goal of any military intervention in Syria would be very limited. Which makes one wonder what the point of doing anything actually is.

The VA created an incentive system that rewarded fast, half-assed claim processing that denied complicated requests.

Virginia Tech English prof Steven Salaita implores us to “Stop saying ‘support the troops.'”

Courts gave the NSA broad powers to intercept overseas communications of Americans . . . 30 years ago.

Joshua Foust and I discuss Chelsea Manning and other issues for BloggingHeadsTV.

A headline I never thought I’d see: “Yemen Asks U.S. For Drones To Fight Al Qaeda”

Convicted felon Bradley Manning has announced that she’d like to spend her confinement as Chelsea Manning.

The Army and Navy are finally doing something about brass bloat.

West Point graduates account for nearly one in fifty deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bradley Manning will be spending a long time at Leavenworth.

The NCAA has come to its senses regarding a Marine sergeant who wants to play college football.

There’s a hearing at Gitmo so secret that even the people having the hearing aren’t allowed to know what it’s about.

My latest for The National Interest, “Clapper’s Bodyguard of Lies,” has posted.

The military is cracking down on sexual assault. The pendulum may be swinging too far.

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.