Outside the Beltway

Another day, another step closer towards military policing in the US.

Will the Netanyahu government double down on its weakening of Iran?

Don’t get your hopes up.

The President has overturned decades of US foreign policy and alienated a NATO ally for, well, reasons.

Patrick Shanahan is out as nominee to be Secretary of Defense after questions were raised during his background investigation.

Well, that can’t be good.

Pork barrel politics is complicating Germany’s replacement of its 1970s fighter jet.

My latest for The National Interest takes a contrarian view on the new National Defense Strategy.

France’s President has spent the week trying to forge and agreement on an anti-ISIS policy, but the two nations that matter the most also disagree the most.

Nobody gets the airplane they wanted but at least they’re paying more for the one they’re getting.

Once again, politics is dictating military policy.

The Obama administration is promising massive cuts in public-facing services in the face of minuscule “cuts” to the budget.

Don’t believe the fear mongering about the coming decreases in the growth of defense spending.

Thanks to the help of a group of Tea Party Freshman in the House. Congress has finally cut off funding for a second engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that the Pentagon never wanted.

European subsidies have given Airbus a competitive advantage over America’s Boeing in commercial aircraft salesboein. The reverse is true on military aircraft.

A crippling, and technologically advanced, computer virus and attacks against Iranian nuclear scientists lead to only one conclusion; someone is doing everything they can short of military action to make sure Iran doesn’t develop nuclear weapons.