Outside the Beltway

The former Defense Secretary and Vice President is gone at 84.

The SOUTHCOM commander has resigned and the Senate is debating, but it won’t matter.

Trump is spouting Russian talking points.

A trailblazer is gone at 90.

After giving a softball interview, he apparently expected one in return.

A precision drone strike on a balcony in Kabul took out a longtime nemesis.

Some light fundraising whilst waiting for mum to die.

An interesting statement from his National Security Advisor.

How do we know when our government is telling us the truth?

The Rogue Warrior is gone at 81.

The Vietnam War hero and one-term Georgia Senator has died at 79.

The collapse is not his doing. But he’s accountable for the poor planning.

For years, American troops fought a ‘forever war’ to delay the inevitable. It’s now coming.

There’s more than enough opinion journalism.

Maybe it’s not going to be Michèle Flournoy after all.

The man behind the 1998 embassy attacks is dead.

And some notes on Trump’s media exposure.

The President seems to be enjoying a mild rally effect.

An American drone strike has taken out the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a move likely to significantly increase tensions across the Middle East.

A new report details the extent to which the eighteen-year Afghanistan War has been marked by mistakes, and lies by the government to cover-up the fact that we went to war without a clear understanding of what we were doing.

Questions linger after a shooting leaves three people and the shooter dead in an incident at one of the nation’s largest Naval facilities.

If President Trump expected to get a political bump from the death of the leader of ISIS, he is most likely going to be disappointed.

There’s apparently big news in the fight against ISIS.

Eighteen years after it started, the American public seems to be mostly ignoring the war in Afghanistan. But that isn’t an excuse for not bringing it to an end.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.