Outside the Beltway

Claims by the President and Defense Department about the Iranian response to the Soleimani raid were untrue.

Sigh.

Matt Bernius and I collaborated on an essay for Defense One.

President Trump will get his Space force, but it won’t exactly be what he wanted when he first proposed that idea.

President Trump is preparing to scrap a thirty-year-old treaty that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It would be a foolish mistake.

Last week, the Polish President floated the idea of a permanent U.S. military base in Poland. It’s a bad idea no matter how you look at it.

Seemingly out of nowhere yesterday, the Commander-in-Chief ordered the Pentagon to create a fifth service.

Enforcing our immigration and drug laws comes at the cost of fundamental rights.

In Defense One, Butch Bracknell and I explain “Why ‘Different Spanks for Different Ranks’ Are Often Justified.”

As talk begins of expanding the war against ISIS into Syria, it is becoming long past time for Congress to exercise its Constitutional function.

Barring shocking developments, General Joe Dunford will be the 36th Commandant of the Marine Corps.

The Pentagon wants to continue receiving special war funding well into peacetime.

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

The NFL donates its game broadcasts to troops deployed in harm’s way but they still won’t get to see them during the shutdown.

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

The United States will go to war without UN or NATO approval.

Some classes at the service academies have been canceled due to the sequester.