Outside the Beltway

A throwaway comment by John Kerry in London has led to some interesting diplomatic developments.

David C. Jones, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Carter and Reagan, has died.

To maintain growth China needs to consider its priorities.

Until the presiding Judge in the case rules otherwise, the identities of the members of the jury in the Zimmerman is secret. Should that be the case?

Military coups used to be far more common than they are today.

Edward Snowden has likely violated many laws, but, absent additional facts, treason is not one of them.

Former President Bill Clinton says President Obama should ignore the polls and intervene in Syria.

Examining SECDEF’s call for radical overhaul of our defense structure against the fate of similar calls past.

North Korea’s latest provocations may be testing the patience of their patrons in Beijing.

Resurrecting and old, and bad, idea.

Mitt Romney is once again making completely false claims about the status of the United States Navy.

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

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

The Obama campaign clearly does not want Americans to consider whether they are better off now than they were four years ago.

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

For the first time in 80 years, there are no veterans on the major party Presidential tickets.

Eight of Cameroon’s 37 Olympians are “missing.”

The new Red Dawn promises to be even sillier than the first.

Michael Phelps today won his 18th and 19th Olympic medal, breaking the old record held by gymnast Larysa Latynina. Does this make him the greatest ever?

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

How would modern Republicans treat Ronald Reagan and his Vice-President?

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

Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb isn’t as easy as most think, Jacques Hymans argues in the current Foreign Policy.

Osama bin Laden’s death provides Barack Obama with an important political shield during the upcoming campaign.

Does the Romney campaign know the USSR doesn’t exist anymore? Of course they do, but the language they use still means something.

Why have so few Republicans stood up to condemn Allen West?

Mitt Romney called Russia our “number one geopolitical foe.” Is he right?

China’s government may be more “efficient,” but it’s hardly a model for the rest of the world.

He may be praising Ronald Reagan now, but Newt Gingrich was singing a different tune in the 1980s.

Mitt Romney is making claims about Naval readiness that are, at best, misleading.

The truth about a Second Obama Term is that it likely wouldn’t be all that remarkable.

The former Utah governor will almost certainly never be the GOP nominee. But someone like him will be soon.