Outside the Beltway

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.

My latest for The National Interest, “It’s Not Too Soon to Tell,” has posted.

My latest for The National Interest, “Ignoring the Hagel Hearing Farce,” has posted.

My latest for The National Interest, “Obama Doctrine, Reagan Doctrine,” is out.

Republican opposition to defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel reveals just how far the party’s thinking has drifted on foreign policy.

My first piece for the New York Daily News, “A Drone Strike on Democracy,” has posted.

The Republican Party needs a new message on foreign policy that is true to the conservative principles of the base and yet has a broad appeal to the American public.

My latest for The National Interest, “Why NATO Should Have Won the Nobel,” is out.

My latest for The New Republic, “America’s Scandalous Drone War Goes Unmentioned in the Campaign,” is out.

My latest for The Atlantic, “What Would Romney’s Foreign Policy Look Like?” has posted.

My latest for The National Interest, “Freedom of Speech and Religion in Egypt and Libya,” has posted.

My latest for World Policy Review, “Oversight or Not, Drones Are Here to Stay,” has posted.

My latest for The Atlantic continues the debate over work-life balance spawned by Anne-Marie Slaughter’s cover story “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All.”

My latest for The National Interest, “Ankara Puts NATO on Speed Dial,” has been posted.

My first piece for the Christian Science Monitor, co-authored with my Atlantic Council collegue Barry Pavel, has been posted.

My latest for The National Interest,Insurmountable Obstacles in Afghanistan, has been posted.