Outside the Beltway

Our good ally Pakistan has publicly ordered us to leave a base used for “covert” CIA drone attacks.

The draft ended in 1973. It’s effects still linger today.

Tim Pawlenty’s foreign policy speech shows him siding with the hawks, and joining in the neocon distortion of Reagan’s legacy.

One foreign policy analyst argues that President Obama should look to Nixon’s Vietnam withdrawal strategy for ideas on Afghanistan.

Rock Diaz likes to wear Army cammies and “Marine Corp” dog tags when he flies. The portly Long Island man has never served in the military.

Should President Obama do whatever General Petraeus wants in Afghanistan?

Yes, you read that correctly.

Congress had a chance to send a strong message to the Executive Branch today. They failed.

Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.

As the President prepares to announce his plans for the future in Afghanistan, a majority of Americans want the troops home now.

Is Congress set to vote to authorize military action in Libya?

For the first time since the end of World War II, the GOP is wrestling with two diametrically opposed visions of foreign affairs.

Contrary to what Senator McCain, seeking realism in military policy does not make one an isolationist.

President Obama overruled his top legal advisors in deciding that the Libya operation does not amount to “hostilities” under the War Powers Act.

The White House’s assertion that Libya isn’t covered by the War Powers Act isn’t being accepted on Capitol Hill.

An ex-CIA agent says that someone in the Bush White House tried to use the agency to “discredit” Iraq War critic Juan Cole.

The Obama Administration tells Congress that it doesn’t need to comply with the War Powers Act because the Act does not apply to the mission in Libya.

The government in northern Sudan is engaging in military attacks against the people of Southern Kordofan.

Dennis Kucinich and nine other Members of Congress are suing the President. They won’t get very far.

The ISI appears to have shown a special interest in informants that helped the CIA find bin Laden.

David Rittgers, a legal policy analyst at the Cato Institute who served three tours in Afghanistan as a special forces officer, laments the militarization of police in America.

After a decade, the Army is reversing the most hideous decision in its long history.

The House GOP and the White House moved one step closer to a constitutional confrontation, but is it much ado about nothing?

Can gay soldiers now get married and receive the same federal benefits as heterosexuals?

Tammy Duckworth has resigned as Veterans Affairs assistant secretary and may make another bid for Congress.

Our patience with those who repeatedly hijack the discussion thread to detract from the topic at hand has ended, effective immediately.

The United States is pressuring the Netanyahu government to move off its hard line.

Clearly there’s a large ambiguity in the Constitutional gap between the two separate war-related powers of Congress and the Executive. The WPA can be seen as an attempt to resolve it but can’t if it’s unconstitutional.

Two major American military installations are in serious danger. From rising water, not terrorist attacks.

American drone strikes in Yemen are intensifying. Is this a new war. or just the same one we’ve been fighting since October 2001?

Charging soldiers $200 for an extra bag on their way home for war? Really Delta?