Outside the Beltway

Jobs were lost and people have died (and will die), but at least we didn’t save any money!

(More than) 12 Tomahawks a-bombing.

Gone, gone, the damage done.

If you don’t collect the data, the problem disappears, right?

The light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

The Pentagon’s couch cushions are huuuuge.

Congress, Schmongress.

The decision “was not conceived in good faith.”

A long and unusual speech has implications for civil-military relations.

A few more details have emerged.

Every general and admiral in a command billet has been called for a last-minute gathering about some unspecified topic.

Our current round of speech repression may prove worse than McCarthyism.

A little bit more than the law would allow.

Memories are fading, as they are wont to do.

A potentially costly rebrand and strange bedfellows.

A historically inaccurate bit of symbolic silliness.

The last survivors want us to remember the horrors of nuclear war.

An Air Force colonel spread misinformation to hide the stealth program.

Is the worst of the idiocy over?

A series of orders impacting military education.

Roughly a thousand will be discharged forthwith.

They’ve reversed a lower court ruling. For now.

Nationwide protests yesterday show a growing outrage over Trump 2.0.

A natural evolution in American foreign policy, albeit a concerning one.

Orwell came to mind this morning.

A judge says OPM has no authority to fire workers in other agencies.

Beware the Ides of March.

The top uniformed lawyers for the Army, Navy, and Air Force have been relieved.

The retired 3-star National Guard officer is an unorthodox pick.

In the interests of full disclosure.

The 47th President had a busy Monday.

Piling absurdity atop cruelty.

Federal workers are afraid and in the dark.

Normal transition . . . and potential red flags.

Legions of unpaid drones . . . ? . . . budget cuts.

The bad guys are having a bad week.

Some quotes to ponder.

He has to be, right?

The President-Elect is testing the guardrails early.

The man tabbed to lead the Defense Department was deemed an “insider threat.”

First there was the Department of Redundancy Department. Now for something completely different.

A Supreme Court Justice says our laws and regulations are out of control.

New information has changed my thinking on this.

An understandable but wrongheaded action.

While foreign policy seldom decides American elections, it really should this year.

The dance continues.

The Netanyahu government has few friends.

A kerfuffle is brewing over the way the United States fights hunger in the global south.

A truly weird story.

Tehran-backed forces are routinely shooting at American forces.