Outside the Beltway

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

On the op/ed page of WaPo, the 10 living former U.S. secretaries of defense say things that shouldn’t have to be said.

Patrick Shanahan, who has been serving as Acting Defense Secretary since James Mattis left in December, is being selected to replace Mattis in that position.

After a flood of stories saying the former Vice President is unsuitable for the modern era, the inevitable pushback is happening.

Your tax dollars at work.

Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us.

Some unusually blunt, but true, language from the U.S. Secretary Of Defense.

Pressure is building on the Administration to send military aid to Ukraine, but it would be a very bad idea.

A surprising change at the top of the military’s civilian chain of command.

The sequestration cuts are two months old, and it seems pretty clear that the claims of doom we heard before they went into effect were heavily exaggerated.