Outside the Beltway

Get ready for an expansion of the war against ISIS into Libya, because it’s probably not far away.

The probability that the shootings in San Bernardino were at least inspired by ISIS and/or other Jihadist terror networks is increasing.

America’s longest war continues.

ISIS apparently now has a foothold in Libya, and is making inroads in Yemen.

The Obama Administration’s legal justification for war against ISIS is laughably flimsy.

The Global War on Terror isn’t over after all.

Once again, President Obama’s attempt to communicate a foreign policy vision falls short.

Today’s foreign-policy disputes rarely consider the way America’s response to one crisis might affect another.

A new poll indicates that most Americans don’t want to see the United States intervening overseas.

The New York Times Benghazi report raises as many questions as it purports to answer.

The world changed significantly twelve years ago today. Will it ever change back even a little bit?

Presidents have gotten away with ignoring Congress when it comes to foreign military adventures for a very long time.

Virginia Tech English prof Steven Salaita implores us to “Stop saying ‘support the troops.'”

It’s 365 days and counting since the last reported case of piracy in the Horn of Africa.

The notion that guns prevent tyranny is based on fantasy and movies, not reality.

Killing their leaders doesn’t seem to be impacting the ability of jihadi groups to recruit and motivate more terrorists.

The Romney campaign’s critique of the President’s foreign policy record is weak, and based on bad history.

A former Obama official says government should learn from business, but is private industry really more efficient?

From one Nobel Peace Prize winner to another.

After a decade of war, suicides are surging among American troops.

My first piece for The New Republic, “Why the Obama Administration’s Drone War May Soon Reach a Tipping Point,” is up.

I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s Republican national security debate over at RealClearWorld along with a solid team of foreign policy analyst

Why we shouldn’t be surprised that police are using tools of violence against protestors.

Should we be outraged over the manner in which Muammar Gaddafi died? I’m not losing any sleep over it.

This is looking less crazy, less sudden, and less an exercise in presidential whimsy than it seemed.

During last night’s debate, Mitt Romney repeated a charge that has become part of the conservative zeitgeist. But is it true?

Success in Libya does not make the American mission any less unjustified than it was on the day President Obama announced it.

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 legendary American soldier, General John Shalikashvili, has died.

Leon Panetta has been brought in to oversee significant cuts to the U.S. Defense budget. Meanwhile, we’re in six wars.

Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.

Contrary to what Senator McCain, seeking realism in military policy does not make one an isolationist.

Clearly there’s a large ambiguity in the Constitutional gap between the two separate war-related powers of Congress and the Executive. The WPA can be seen as an attempt to resolve it but can’t if it’s unconstitutional.

Elias Isquith proclaims my Atlantic essay “How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology” to be “a total disaster.”

There are many opportunities to go to war. Here’s a guide for choosing between them.

What are the limits of Resolution 1973? Are there any?