Outside the Beltway

The Rogue Warrior is gone at 81.

Our ostensibly ally is working with our chief adversary against our interests.

You’re a monster, Dr. Grinch, Your heart’s an empty hole.

The continuing calls to abandon objectivity in reporting in favor of a particular agenda.

Some 98 percent of active service members are now vaccinated. The rest will be discharged.

Russia’s leader sees the situation in the former Soviet Republic quite differently than the West.

The Pentagon brass have defeated a supermajority coalition in Congress.

The longtime Senator and Vice Presidential and Presidential nominee is gone at 98.

Russia may invade Ukraine again. The United States would prefer otherwise.

Trump’s last Secretary of Defense is being stymied by preclearance review.

A possible murder plot in Colombia embedded into a problematic multi-decade narrative.

A serial criminal murdered five and injured dozens.

The next boot has dropped.

The politicization of the virus continues.

A conversation in two parts.

The Vietnam War hero and one-term Georgia Senator has died at 79.

While 96 percent of airmen are in compliance, the service is about to get smaller.

The Assistant Secretary for Health has put on a uniform and become an instant Admiral.

The trailblazing soldier-statesman has died at 84.

The convicted criminal has taken his shenanigans to court.

A long-overdue change appears to be happening.

Their case is less than persuasive.

President Biden was advised to keep troops in Afghanistan . . . for no apparent reason.

A video that is worth your time.

A follow-up to yesterday’s analysis.

While well-intentioned, the Chairman’s actions were illegal and dangerous.

Two decades after a day we’ll not forget.

A blast from the past.

The wonders of hindsight.

The notion of a kinder, gentler version has quickly been debunked.

Humanitarian instincts rightly trumped security concerns.

We may be out of Afghanistan but the ‘war on terror’ is likely to continue indefinitely.

After 20 years, the conflict closes much as it began.

Because Afghanistan and Hurricane Ida weren’t enough for the Biden administration to deal with.

I guess you proved your point about great powers picking and choosing their battlefields.

What we know of the American servicemembers killed.

An unsatisfying first(?) response.

Thirteen Marines and dozens of Afghan civilians are dead in a much-anticipated attack.

Grandstanding in the midst of chaos is a bad look.

The evacuation could soon become a terrorist target.

They’ve got a lot of gall blaming Biden for this mess.

Well, this escalated quickly.

We’re not getting Afghans—or even American citizens trapped there—out fast enough.

A legendary journalist is gone.

A humanitarian crisis made worse by shameful delays.

The risks are real but the rewards are spectacular.

The collapse is not his doing. But he’s accountable for the poor planning.

The mirage of semi-order faded quickly.

The postmortems are well underway.

The collapse is coming even faster than feared.