Outside the Beltway

Trumps undercuts current messaging & brings up past military service controversies

New information has changed my thinking on this.

An understandable but wrongheaded action.

A legendary soldier is gone at 97.

The “We Were Soldiers Once” author and his wife have been honored.

Some great suggestions, same lame ones, and some missed opportunities.

The 94-year-old legend is finally getting his due.

Are those who die in our wars more deserving than those who die in our stores?

A hero of the Afghan War has succumbed to cancer, aged 41.

The last of the World War II code talkers from the Mohawk tribe has passed away at the age of 94

Just days after being indicted on insider trading charges, New York Congressman Chris Collins is suspending his campaign for re-election.

The situation isn’t as awful as portrayed by the AP—but it’s still pretty bad.

Absent changes in policy, the nation’s most hallowed military cemetery will run out of space in two decades.

There won’t be any tanks, but it looks like President Trump will get his military parade.

Ben Carson’s campaign now admits that he fabricated a key portion of his biography.

A headline I did not expect to see, courtesy the Army Times: “Dakota Meyer engaged to Bristol Palin.”

Reflections on a story making the rounds this Independence Day.

A Jewish-American OSS hero has been denied the nation’s highest military honor.

Sergeant First Class Leroy Petry, recipient of the Medal of Honor for gallantry in Afghanistan, is medically retiring from the Army.

Phil Carter draws attention to “The Vets We Reject and Ignore.”

A bizarre hit piece in National Journal gives the false impression that our military leaders are considering removing the president.

Few subjects rile members and veterans of military service more than changes to the uniform.

Colonel Bud Day, who earned a Medal of Honor leading Vietnam POWs, had died, aged 88 years.

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

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has wasted no time issuing a full-throated statement endorsing today’s DOMA ruling

American troops may now earn the fourth highest combat medal from the comfort of their desk chair.

The first seven men to be awarded the Medal of Honor for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan received it posthumously. Clinton Romesha will be the fourth in a row that’s lived to meet the president.

Congress is trying to re-write a law that the Supreme Court found unconstitutional in June. Have they succeeded?

After three days of buildup to a “mystery speaker,” the closing night of the Republican convention featured a rambling performance by Clint Eastwood and an empty chair.

Virginia has been offering ID cards to military veterans to make it easier to prove that they’re military veterans for months now.

Congress seems to have gotten the message the Supreme Court sent last month about the Stolen Valor Act.

The US Supreme Court has struck down the Stolen Valor Act, which made it a federal crime to lie about military honors, on free speech grounds.

With two weeks left in June, the Supreme Court is likely to be in the news quite a lot.

Political disagreements about war are no reason to dismiss the sacrifices of those who have died for our country.

Why should lying about having served in combat or been awarded a medal for valor should be legally different from lying about athletic prowess in high school, the number of sexual partners you’ve had, or the size of one’s sex organs?

Thomas Ricks posts several recommendations for fixing the Army. Most of them are really, really stupid.

The Supreme Court will have another interesting First Amendment case on its docket this Term.

Army Sergeant First Class Leroy Arthur Petry will become the ninth Medal of Honor recipient for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan–and one of only two who lived to tell the tale.