Outside the Beltway

A massive purge ahead of the long weekend.

A 20% reduction would require massive changes in law and approach.

A series of orders impacting military education.

Roughly a thousand will be discharged forthwith.

Whether it’s a good policy will depend almost entirely on execution.

A case from rural Alabama.

A major reshuffling of the foreign policy team 100 days into the administration.

A natural evolution in American foreign policy, albeit a concerning one.

No more woke crap.

Is the DOGE now on a leash?

Parade of poor governance edition.

In the immortal words of Emily Litella, “Never mind.”

Beware the Ides of March.

The top uniformed lawyers for the Army, Navy, and Air Force have been relieved.

The retired 3-star National Guard officer is an unorthodox pick.

Three members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been fired.

In the interests of full disclosure.

A tragic but perhaps inevitable event.

And USAID leadership placed on leave.

Using money to control the GOP.

The bad guys are having a bad week.

The fall of the Assad regime is the end of the beginning.

The Florida governor is among several names being floated to replace Pete Hegseth.

A dangerous choice that the Senate must reject.

Here we go again.

A general conversation and a lot of specifics about RFK. Jr.

The President-Elect is testing the guardrails early.

The man tabbed to lead the Defense Department was deemed an “insider threat.”

There is no such thing as “the perfect candidate.”

No, I am not kidding.

The Congressman and Green Beret colonel will head Trump’s national security team.

Turning a campaign slogan into policy.

Trump, Bezos, and the slippery slope of authoritarianism.

Hitting back at centibillionaires is hard.

Yet another example.

US and regional leaders are hoping for a limited operation.

The legendary singer, songwriter, and actor is gone at 88.

A massive follow-up to the exploding communications devices.

The Secretary of the Navy supports the man who hired him. Who knew?

I don’t think its stolen valor, but Walz has played it loose when referring to his service

A Supreme Court Justice says our laws and regulations are out of control.

An understandable but wrongheaded action.

A long overdue move.

While foreign policy seldom decides American elections, it really should this year.

*Parenthetically, his opponent wouldn’t know the truth if it bit him on the ass.

Is Rafah the breaking point?

The Netanyahu government has few friends.

He’s suddenly a billionaire after all.