Outside the Beltway

Romney’s VFW speech was filled with tropes and bromides but nothing that should raise eyebrows.

My first piece for CNN has been posted at Fareed Zakaria’s Global Public Square.

The U.S may be on the verge of committing the next decade to the future of Afghanistan.

Dick Cheney’s long-awaited book’s out and he promises lots of bombshells that will have heads exploding in DC.

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave the strongest signal ever that there will be some U.S. military presence in Iraq after December 31st.

DARPA has a revolving door that doesn’t revolve.

So, you want a career in foreign policy field and are weighing your options….

The defense spending lobby is already engaging in fear-mongering over very modest defense cuts.

The cuts to Pentagon spending in the new debt deal are further revealing a split in the GOP over foreign policy and military spending.

A take on the conflict that’s probably different from the one you’ve been reading.

Condi Rice’s speechwriter thinks Huntsman can appeal to the Tea Party.

Now that America’s political leadership have probably averted a self-inflicted global economic calamity, it’s time to assess the winners and losers.

President Obama and Congressional Republicans have the outline of a deal to raise the debt limit past the 2012 elections.

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.”