Outside the Beltway

Robert Gates says he wants to retire next year, but will the call of duty cause him to stay longer ?

Barack Obama has significantly widened his predecessor’s global war on terrorism, even if he’s no longer calling it that.

Every new report out of Iran seems to bring us closer to the moment when Israel has decided it’s heard enough. What happens if that day actually happens ?

Tish Long, the new director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), is the first woman to head a major U.S. intelligence agency.

Remember when dealing with the utterances of Hugo Chávez that you should take them with a grain of salt (or twelve).

Protests against mosques aren’t just limited to Manhattan. And that’s a problem.

There’s a war of words developing between the Pentagon and the information-sharing website Wikileaks.

Holland became the first NATO member to pull out of Afghanistan. How long before the rest follow?

The American military is on a mission in Afghanistan that the public is increasingly starting to question.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t say whether she thinks the war in Afghanistan is worth the increasing toll on American blood and treasure.

The requirement that “members act at all times in a way that reflects creditably on the House” has a parallel in the UCMJ’s “conduct unbecoming” clause.

The Obama administration wants the FBI to be able to look at your Internet records without the inconvenience of respecting your 4th Amendment rights.

While President Obama is pushing the Afghanistan surge, large numbers of elected Democrats are demanding we get out.

The Pentagon can not account for 95 percent of the Iraq oil revenue from 2004 to 2007.

Barbara Boxer has offended some veterans again. This time, she’s right and they’re wrong.

Humor me for a moment: if your life was in danger, would you trust Julian Assange to keep your identity a secret? – Joshua Foust

“I don’t condone leaking secrets. But nor do I condone a policy that can only work in secret.” – Bernard Finel

Will the Wikileaks document dump give even further impetus to the growing sentiment that the United States needs to leave Afghanistan ?

Today’s outrage of the day comes in the form of a new report claiming that the United States supported the release of the only man accused. But the report itself proves that isn’t what happened.

The scumbags at WikiLeaks have published a huge trove of classified documents provided to them by one or more traitors in our military.

Contrary to what you read on bumper stickers, retired Lt. Col William Astore argues that not every soldier is a hero. He’s right.

With everyone concerned about the budget deficit, the idea of cutting military spending is finally gaining traction on Capitol Hill.

Feldpost für unsere Soldaten is a campaign recognizing the sacrifices of German soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.

Recently Lt. Dan Choi chained himself to the White House fence to protest Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Yesterday, he found out that he’d been discharged from the Army because he’s gay.

Will a debate over foreign policy tear apart the GOP ? Probably not.

Stan McChrystal’s boys had “Team America” patches made up.

As if the Gulf Oil Spill weren’t enough, there are now allegations that BP played a role in the release of the only man convicted in the murder of 190 Americans.

Since 9/11 there has been a steady trickle of stories about jihadists hooking up with Latin American drug cartels and the like. Here is a guide of story points that can help you identify when such a story is almost certainly bogus.

There is an al Qaeda link to yesterday’s terrorist attack in Uganda.

Some people are saying that David Petraeus deserves promotion to a rank last held by Omar Bradley.

The Taliban have a new secret weapon: Monkey terrorist soldiers.

Is Ann Coulter’s defense of Michael Steele’s Afghan War skepticism the beginning of conservative split, or just an attempt to pile on President Obama ?

The members of the Russian spy ring broken up last week by the FBI are headed back to Mother Russia.

General James Mattis, who some feel was snubbed for Marine Commandant last month, has landed in arguably a more important role: succeeding David Petraeus at CENTCOM.

General Petraeus is in charge in Afghanistan! What exactly does this change?

We need to ask ourselves some tough questions on Afghanistan.

It turns out that Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi isn’t dying after all, at least not any faster than any other human being.

It’s going to be much harder for reporters to get access to the military thanks to new rules announced last night by the Pentagon.

Once again, the knives are out for Michael Steele after his recent Afghanistan gaffe.

Some cops apparently still haven’t figured out that it’s legal to take pictures in public places — even of cops.

The Chairman of the RNC is expressing doubts about America’s war effort in Afghanistan.

NATO should resist preemptively declaring cyber attacks “an attack on all” members under Article 5.