Outside the Beltway

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

A long overdue move.

The United States has not learned from Snowden and Manning.

Donald Trump is apparently not the only one with a fetish for war criminals.

The head of the House investigatory committee seems to think so.

The Pentagon brass have defeated a supermajority coalition in Congress.

While well-intentioned, the Chairman’s actions were illegal and dangerous.

Retired generals are no longer in the military.

It’s harder than a looks, especially given the limited size of the problem.

New screening procedures follow a Department-wide stand-down.

73 cadets violated the honor code while taking an exam remotely.

Thomas Modly, the acting Secretary of the Navy, has embarrassed himself and must go.

Can the commander-in-chief’s tweets be unlawful command influence?

The way the Navy and Congress have handled this has been abysmal.

Sexual misconduct in the military continues to frustrate observers.

In military justice Bizarroland, Rep Duncan Hunter intentionally commits “reverse UCI.”

Chelsea Manning is running for Senate, but she may be violating military regulations by doing so.

Bowe Bergdahl received a dishonorable discharge and reduction in rank, but will not serve time in prison.

Could Donald Trump’s comments about Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on the campaign trail lead to the case against Bergdahl being dismissed? A military judge will have to decide.

Bowe Bergdahl’s Court Martial has been delayed until 2017, which raises the possibility that comments by Donald Trump could result in Bergdahl getting off scot-free.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will face a Court Martial for the circumstances that led to his being capture and held captive by the Taliban for five years.

In which I change my mind on an important topic.

Reports indicate that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is likely to be charged with desertion for leaving his post in 2009, but he’s unlikely to serve time in prison.

The Army’s investigation of the disappearance five years ago of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has been referred to a top General, who will decide if a court martial should be convened.

It would appear that someone needs to introduce the Air Force to Article VI of the Constitution.

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

The President’s well-intentioned campaign against military sex crimes has backfired.

Not every soldier is a hero. Not even every POW.

It’s good that Bowe Bergdahl is free, but questions remain about how he went missing that need to be answered.

My latest for Defense One, “The Army’s Misguided Crackdown on Tattoos,” has posted.

Bradley Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge against him, but is still likely to spend most of his life in prison.

President Obama is rightly outraged by a wave of sexual assaults in the military. He unwittingly made them harder to prosecute.

Don’t blame “secret courts” for the government’s expanded spying on American citizens and allies.

Did President Obama’s comments about taking a tough stand on military sexual assault constitute “undue influence” on specific cases? One military judge says that they did.

Marine Sergeant Gary Stein will soon be free to criticize the commander-in-chief all he wants. As a civilian.

A Reserve Specialist who endorsed Ron Paul’s presidential candidacy in uniform will only be reprimanded, not court martialed.

Air Force personnel charged with transporting the bodies of American soldiers killed in action apparently finds dead American warriors funny.

Contempt for Congress is an old American tradition. Unfortunately.

Pfc. Bradley Manning faces twenty-two new charges, including one that could put him before a firing squad, but investigators still can’t prove any direct links between him and Wikileaks.

Should members of the Armed Forces and other public employees have the same rights under the 1st Amendment as the rest of us? Or should they be more like journalists?

The Veterans of Foreign Wars has endorsed Ron Klein, who never served a day in uniform, over retired LTC Allen West, a decorated veteran of several foreign wars. Is this an outrage?

The requirement that “members act at all times in a way that reflects creditably on the House” has a parallel in the UCMJ’s “conduct unbecoming” clause.