Outside the Beltway

A controversial article arguing prominent war critics should be targeted as enemy combatants is worth discussing.

My latest for War on The Rocks, “The Inter-Service Wars Are Looking Like Calvinball,” has posted.

I was on yesterday afternoon’s edition of Federal News Radio’s “In Depth” with Francis Rose discussing my recent piece in The National Interest on military retirement reform.

Another commentary on the National Security Strategy, this one at The Hill.

The first installment of my analysis of the National Security Strategy.

My latest for The National Interest, “Obama’s Paris Blunder: Part of a Much Bigger Problem,” has posted.

The abrupt departure of Chuck Hagel says much more about Administration policy than it does about Chuck Hagel.

The plan won’t achieve achieve its stated goals.

My latest for RealClearDefense: “Senator Walsh’s Unrepresentative Black Mark on Professional Military Education”

My latest for War on the Rocks: “Don’t Believe Everything You Read in the Papers.”

My latest for The Hill, “America Comes to Soccer,” has posted.

My latest for The National Interest, “Europe’s Free Ride on the American-Defense Gravy Train,” has posted.

My latest collaboration with Butch Bracknell, “Ahmed Abu Khattala and the Miranda-Rights Question,” has posted in The National Interest.

As the medium matures, something important is being lost.

My latest for The Hill, co-authored with Butch Bracknell: “Explaining the Sinclair demotion.”

My latest for The National Interest, “Neoconservatives, the Iraq Debate and Ad Hominem Attacks,” has posted.

My latest for The Hill, “Why all VA executives are above average,” has posted.

Retired Marine lawyer Butch Bracknell and I tackle the subject for The Hill.

My latest for War on the Rocks, “HAGEL: CLIMBING OUT FROM UNDER THE BUS,” has posted.

Not every soldier is a hero. Not even every POW.

My first piece for The Hill, “Crimea is not Armageddon,” posted this morning.

Poking the eye of the institution that passes your budget is a bold choice.

My latest for The National Interest, “The U.S. Military’s Ethics Crisis,” has posted.

The US military needs to cull and standardize its bloated award system.

Without hard choices on pay and benefits, the Pentagon will have to make big cuts in readiness.

My review of Andrew Bacevich’s latest book, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country.

My latest for The National Interest, “The Military and the Shutdown: Assessing the Damage,” is out.

My latest for Defense One, “The Army’s Misguided Crackdown on Tattoos,” has posted.

My latest for The Atlantic, “It Isn’t the Military’s Place to Weigh In on the Syria Debate,” has posted.

President Obama’s plans in Syria are as unclear as they were before he spoke last night.

“No More Baby Steps,” my first piece for Defense News, has posted.

Humanitarian wars have their own grammar but not their own logic.

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

Think of it as the spy version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

Senators John McCain and Carl Levin have demanded answers from General Martin Dempsey on Syria. Can they handle the truth?

My latest for The Atlantic, “Why Should Congress and the Courts Care About Snooping If Citizens Don’t?” has posted.

While our leaders may not be fully trustworthy, they, not disgruntled low level employees, are best positioned to decide.

Syria isn’t Libya.

My latest for The National Interest, “Kenneth Waltz’s Crucial Logic,” has posted.

My latest for The National Interest, “Never Again, Except This Time,” has posted.

My latest for The National Interest, “Why Terrorists Are Worse Than Guns,” has posted.