Outside the Beltway

The Defense Business Board wants to do away with the pension at 20 years.

A legendary American soldier, General John Shalikashvili, has died.

The ban on gays openly serving in the military will end in September, nine months after President Obama signed the repeal into law.

Georgia Congressman Paul Broun has a radical suggestion: While we’re playing chicken with the nation’s debt, let’s cut $1.3 trillion from the debt ceiling!

As the President prepares to announce his plans for the future in Afghanistan, a majority of Americans want the troops home now.

President Obama is expected to announce the withdrawal of the 30,000 Surge troops.

President Obama overruled his top legal advisors in deciding that the Libya operation does not amount to “hostilities” under the War Powers Act.

After a decade, the Army is reversing the most hideous decision in its long history.

American drone strikes in Yemen are intensifying. Is this a new war. or just the same one we’ve been fighting since October 2001?

The selection process for the Joint Chiefs has been most odd.

The Navy is considering allowing its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages once “Dont ask, Don’t tell” ends.

Why would David Petraeus take the thankless job of running the CIA?

Sunday’s announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden was the latest example of how Twitter has become the go-to source for “Breaking News.”

Gary Weddle, a schoolteacher from East Wenatchee, Washington, has cut his beard after waiting almost ten years for Osama bin Laden to be killed.

CIA director Panetta to take over Pentagon; Petraeus to be nominated for CIA

The Pentagon is frustrated that the Obama administration doesn’t “seem to understand what military force can and cannot do.”

A Pentagon investigation was unable to verify some of the comments attributed to General Stanley McChrystal in Rolling Stone last year. That doesn’t mean he’s been cleared, though.

For the past day or so, America’s fighting men have been pawns in a cynical political game.

Paul Ryan unveiled an ambitious plan to cut the deficit today. The question is whether it will be the beginning of a debate, or an opportunity for Democratic demagoguery

The antiwar movement has been strangely silent despite the fact that U.S. foreign policy hasn’t really changed that much since Barack Obama became President.

America is about to enter a third war in the Muslim world with no clear idea of the end game.

With minor exceptions, all of the potential candidates for the GOP nomination in 2012 seem to have accepted the idea that defense spending, and the Bush-era interventionist foreign policy, are off the table when it comes time to talk spending cuts.