Outside the Beltway

Recent comments from Russian officials suggest that the nation may be preparing to cut its longtime ally loose.

NATO has agreed to deploy Patriot missiles along the Turkey-Syria border to protect Turkish airspace and territory, while making clear no escalation is intended.

Two years ago, Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others were killed in a plane crash in Russia. A new report has “traces of explosives” in the debris.

First in a series of posts looking at the substance of the final presidential debate, ostensibly about foreign policy.

President Obama is keeping the conflict in Syria at arms length. That’s a good idea.

The argument that the United States should start assisting the rebellion in Syria has many flaws.

Let’s take a trip back in time to see what some conservatives thought 2012 would look like if Barack Obama were elected President.

Mitt Romney’s speech at VMI today was billed as a major foreign policy address, but it was incredibly light on substance.

Turkey’s military has attacked Syria several times since Syrian forces shelled a Turkish village.

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

With Mitt Romney and Barack Obama basically saying the same things about foreign policy, it’s time to take a look at an alternative.

The Romney campaign is doubling down on bizarre foreign policy pronouncements.

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy weaknesses are starting to become apparent.

President Obama didn’t blow the doors off the Time Warner Cable Arena last night, but he didn’t need to.

Mitt Romney’s speech last night was the best he’s ever given, but it’s impact may have been undercut but several odd production decisions that preceded it.

Today’s convention activities will include the opening salvos of an attack on the President’s foreign policy. This strikes me as a mistake.

The war in Afghanistan has not been a topic of discussion in the Presidential campaign, but that’s largely because there’s not much left to talk about.

Disseting the Romney visit to the UK and musing about the state of GOP foreign policy views.

Several key members of the Syrian government were killed in a suicide bomb attack today in Damascus.

Following yesterday’s shoot-down of a Turkish F-5 by Syria has once again raised the specter of NATO action under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. It’s not going to happen.

Rand Paul calls Mitt Romney out over his comments about Presidential War Powers.

Mitt Romney’s confrontational approach to Russia makes no sense.

The factors influencing Russian policy in Syria are many, and some of them are quite ancient.

The New York Times finds some infighting among old Republican foreign policy hands.

Mitt Romney is criticizing the President over his Syria policy, but his alternative ideas aren’t very good.

Romney comes down firmly on the guns side of guns and butter.

Meet Flame. A cyber threat that makes Stuxnet seem like child’s play.

Is there a Romney Doctrine?