Outside the Beltway

The 94-year-old legend is finally getting his due.

Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton is ending a Presidential bid that few people were paying attention to.

All three children of the next head of the Army are following in his footsteps.

I’m in the New York Times’ “Room for Debate” with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Duke’s Peter Feaver.

According to reports, Vice-President Biden is on a Clinton campaign short list for Secretary of State.

And odd report from Washington Post and Stars and Stripes.

The Army is sending a strong message on sexual assault. It picked the wrong poster boy.

A new book by former SecDef Robert Gates is making political waves in Washington power circles, but will it matter to ordinary Americans?

The return of a really bad idea.

The idea of completely pulling out of Afghanistan after 2014 is very compelling.

To much fanfare, President Obama announced a shift in Afghan War policy in December 2009. There’s little evidence it’s worked.

Once again, a pundit has come up with the boneheaded idea of reinstating the draft.

Michael Hastings has yet another credulous story attempting to smear the United States military.

A Pentagon investigation was unable to verify some of the comments attributed to General Stanley McChrystal in Rolling Stone last year. That doesn’t mean he’s been cleared, though.

Did a unit in Afghanistan engage in an IO operation against U. S. senators?

Unless you paid close attention, you probably missed most of the coverage of the war in Afghanistan in 2010.

Robert Lane Greene investigates the rise of acronyms, initialisms, and other informal shortenings of speech.

Bob Woodward reports that President Obama was looking for options other than staying the course in Afghanistan. The military didn’t provide any.

Perhaps the biggest insight from Bob Woodward’s latest book is the sharpness of the split between the military and civilian leadership.

General Stanley McChrystal has been hired to teach leadership at Yale.

The American military is on a mission in Afghanistan that the public is increasingly starting to question.

Three different ways they’re viewing the leaked “war logs” across the Pond.

General Stanley McChrystal retired with full honors while being lauded by the Secretary of Defense.

Stan McChrystal’s boys had “Team America” patches made up.

Some people are saying that David Petraeus deserves promotion to a rank last held by Omar Bradley.

Why I didn’t talk to Dave Weigel before writing about him.

It’s going to be much harder for reporters to get access to the military thanks to new rules announced last night by the Pentagon.

Stanley McChrystal will be allowed to retire as a four-star general rather than suffer the indignity of being reduced to his permanent grade.

Is political office in Stan McChrystal’s future?

The public is growing tired of America’s Longest War.

Does it matter if the controversial McChrystal comments were “off the record” ? No, it doesn’t.

David Petraeus says he supports the President’s Afghanistan policy, including the withdrawal timetable, but that means less than most people think it does.

While praise for the military often goes overboard, the reaction to the McChrystal flap shows our armed forces at their finest.

Both President Obama and General McChrystal handled a bad situation incredibly well.

Here’s a great ad campaign idea: A series of funny spots by retired General Stanley McChrystal touting his favorite beer.

President Obama has relieved General Stanley Chrystal of command of ISAF.

Stanley McChrystal is being called to face Obama’s national security team this morning. They should take the opportunity to come up with coherent Afghanistan policy.

Are we making too much of Stanley McChrystal’s remarks?

Stanley McChrystal’s fate is the story of the day, but there’s a broader message in the Rolling Stone story, and it has broad implications for the future of the Afghan War.

There’s really only one story in Washington, D.C. today, and Stanley McChrystal is the star player.

General Stanley McChrystal has “offered to resign” in the wake of the controversy of the day. We’ll see whether this is accepted or the president decides that McChyrystal must be fired instead.

Is there a double standard in play when generals criticize Democratic versus Republican presidents?