Outside the Beltway

The United States has not learned from Snowden and Manning.

The problem has intensified—and spread beyond Ukraine secrets.

Russia is circulating doctored versions of plans for a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

Donald Trump is apparently not the only one with a fetish for war criminals.

The Pentagon Papers guy laments that there are too few like him.

It’s taken more than two years to undo a silly, petty decision.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

It’s probably not strange visitors from outer space but we can’t rule it out.

Another bill doomed to die.

Playing two-level games.

An object lesson on the challenges of alliance politics.

It’s becoming a sad joke.

A free panel on how transparent social media platforms should be about government requests

The Biden administration is slowly ratcheting up the aid package.

The Marine and Air Force chiefs appear to be the top candidates.

One of these is not like the other.

A controversial artillery round is being used effectively against Russian forces.

Just like Trump’s except for every important detail.

The Army has done the right thing the wrong way.

United States and People’s Republic of China forces are playing a dangerous game.

A 34-year CIA officer’s thoughts.

A truly bizarre vote.

Shockingly, the Defense Department doesn’t keep up with former employees.

My latest publication.

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

An unsavory practice that’s mostly legal.

They’re hitting civilian targets partly because they can’t hit military ones.

In the weeds of civil-military relations.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

Eighteen HIMARS and what do you get? Years older and deeper in debt.

The CIA warned of his months ago but the Biden administration is being cautious.

The reactionary press is once again misrepresenting diversity training.

The Pentagon’s Inspector General is “concerned” over the pace of rejections.

The former president shopped for the right judge.

It goes deeper than base names.

I warned you all, my predictions are notoriously wrong.

Both sides have had their say and now we wait for a ruling.

Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in again… [update: x2]

I mean, really, really, really bad for the former President and his legal team.

It appears that the DOJ has enough evidence to indict someone.

A man made famous for discovering Iraq’s WMD program was virtually nonexistent is gone at 82.

While enormous, the commander-in-chief’s control over state secrets is not absolute.

It’s complicated, hard to prove, and politically fraught.

Tell us you don’t know anything about Federal Warrants without telling us you don’t know anything about Federal Warrants

A major milestone has been reached.

Sigh.

A loudmouth III%er cried like a baby during his sentencing.

A precision drone strike on a balcony in Kabul took out a longtime nemesis.

Not only has the war changed, but so have the combatants.

The US armed forces are looking for a few more good men and women.