Outside the Beltway

President Obama’s plans in Syria are as unclear as they were before he spoke last night.

I’ve been up since 3 am and drinking since 6 pm, so my reaction to a presidential war speech at 9 am may not be the definitive word

My latest for The National Interest has posted.

Even before the Russian curve ball, the public opposition to military strikes on Syria was mounting.

Opposing interventionism and unnecessary and unwise military engagements is not isolationism.

Heading into an intense week of Congressional lobbying, the odds still seem against the Administration on Syria.

“No More Baby Steps,” my first piece for Defense News, has posted.

f Assad is eating Cheerios, we’re going to take away his spoon and give him a fork.

The political polarization we saw during the Bush Presidency has continued throughout the Obama Presidency.

President Obama is trying to launch a war but there’s a lot of competition for attention.

Why are chemical weapons a “red line” in a war where so many have been killed?

President Obama seems to have forgotten the words of a certain Illinois State Senator back in 2002.

Score one for Team Bush?

The president’s public dithering on Syria is drawing jeers from friend and foe alike.

Some questions that the Administration needs to answer before attacking Syria.

Presidents have gotten away with ignoring Congress when it comes to foreign military adventures for a very long time.

Could anyone have imagined a decade ago a scenario when the United States would go to war with France by our side and England on the sidelines?

Some Members of Congress are calling for a debate before any strikes on Syria. They’re absolutely right.

There’s more than one way to look at the civil war in Syria.

We’re almost certainly going to launch punitive strikes against Syria. They’ll almost certainly be ineffective.

United States helped Saddam Hussein launch some of the worst chemical attacks in history against Iran.

The VA created an incentive system that rewarded fast, half-assed claim processing that denied complicated requests.

Virginia Tech English prof Steven Salaita implores us to “Stop saying ‘support the troops.'”

As President Obama’s red line has been crossed more brazenly, he continues to sound reluctant to intervene in Syria while positioning forces to do just that.

Convicted felon Bradley Manning has announced that she’d like to spend her confinement as Chelsea Manning.

The Army and Navy are finally doing something about brass bloat.

West Point graduates account for nearly one in fifty deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bradley Manning will be spending a long time at Leavenworth.

Does interest in Egypt make the same sense it did 30 years ago?

It may be Rick Santorum’s “turn” but he’s too harsh and extreme to win the nomination.

The Air Force will now allow pregnant women and single parents to join.

Al Qaeda may be up to something, so take no chances.

Megan Welter served as a Signal Corps officer in the Iraq War. Now, she’s an Arizona Cardinals cheerleader.

Bradley Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge against him, but is still likely to spend most of his life in prison.

Army Staff Sergeant Ty Carter will be the fifth living recipient of the Medal of Honor from the Afghanistan-Iraq era.

Chris Christie waded into the debate going on in the GOP over foreign policy. His comments were less than helpful to say the least.