Outside the Beltway

Lethality.

More excerpts from excellent columns I’ve read.

(More than) 12 Tomahawks a-bombing.

Not really posts, but hey, here they are anyway.

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

Has the calculus of either side changed?

A small, conscript-driven military has very different training and doctrine than ours.

Putin ignored warnings from US intelligence.

The BBC’s security correspondent thinks so.

The 21st century’s most brutal conflict and the laws of war.

The most important and controversial American diplomat of the postwar era is gone at 100.

An unconvincing column from an old pro.

Trump is still in the GOP driver’s seat.

A former Virginia police officer has been found guilty, partly on the testimony of a former colleague.

What will Zelensky, Putin, and the West settle for?

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

The Russian leader is isolated and under tremendous pressure.

Putin’s forces are in Kyiv.

The much-anticipated escalation has happened. Now to see how the United States and its allies respond.

A blast from the past.

Conservatives have lost it one generation at a time.

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

The answer seems simple but it isn’t.

Amazon is using its dominant position to shut down a right-wing social platform.

Not of governance.