Outside the Beltway

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

In recent weeks the US has ramped-up pressure on Maduro.

A public health crisis turns into a public relations crisis.

Tweets aren’t policy, unless they are.

It’s a reasonable question but not the right one.

Nobody even agrees on what baselines to use.

Democrats who could prove to be vulnerable in 2020 are largely lining up in favor of impeaching the President.

A new report details the extent to which the eighteen-year Afghanistan War has been marked by mistakes, and lies by the government to cover-up the fact that we went to war without a clear understanding of what we were doing.

Questions linger after a shooting leaves three people and the shooter dead in an incident at one of the nation’s largest Naval facilities.

Donald Trump’s pardons of soldiers convicted of war crimes sends the wrong message to the military, to our allies, and to the world.

The Secretary of the Navy was abruptly dismissed late yesterday in a dispute over the a case involving a SEAL accused of war crimes.

A new article puts Joe Biden’s gaffes and malapropisms in a new light.

The newest branch of the US Armed Forces has made a long-overdue policy change that others should copy.

The President of the United States behaves like a child.

President Trump has named his fourth National Security Adviser in less than three years.

And what a week it has been.

Just over a week after Dan Coats announced he was stepping own as Director of National Intelligence, there are more shakeups at the top of the U.S. intelligence community.

President Trump attacked four Democratic Congresswomen for engaging in exactly the same rhetoric that the President himself has over the years.

Mark Esper has been confirmed and sworn in as the next Secretary of Defense, ending a period of nearly 100 days during which the Pentagon was headed by a succession of Acting Secretaries.

An Army appellate court has rejected an appeal filed by Bowe Bergdahl that argued that the President’s attacks on him while a candidate unfairly influenced his court martial.

In a move sure to ruffle feathers, the President is bypassing all of the Navy’s four-star admirals for the next service chief.

Adm. William Moran had been set to become Chief of Naval Operations in three weeks.

The ground shook overnight in Southern California for the second time in two days.

The Pentagon has been headed by Acting Secretaries for an unprecedented period. Does it really matter?

Former Congressman Joe Sestak is the 24th Democrat to enter the race for President.

As if the situation in the Persian Gulf weren’t already tense enough, the Iranians shot down an American reconnaissance drone late yesterday

Bret Stephens (and others) are overreacting.

The Democratic-controlled House has settled on the worst possible option.

Expanding on events that have been going on for months, two oil tankers were attacked today near the entrance to the Persian Gulf

While the scope of Federal power has expanded beyond the ken of the Framers, this is not an example.

A misleading, annoying media trope that needs to go away.

The Navy is confirming that it did receive a request from the White House to keep the USS John McCain “out of sight” during the President’s visit to an American base in Japan.

Thad Cochran, who represented Mississippi in Congress for 45 years, has died at the age of 81.

White House aides asked the Navy to keep the USS John McCain “out of sight” while the President visited a Navy base in Japan earlier this week.

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

Legendary Comedian Tim Conway has died at the age of 85.

Disturbing news in the Eddie Gallagher case.

94-year-old Bill Dawson has a story to tell and is the only one left alive to tell it.

With his attempt to overthrow the government clearly a failure, Juan Guaidó is back to calling for foreign military intervention in Venezuela.

The President revived an old debate but added some new twists.

The raw number of vessels is not the best metric of naval power.

Sexual misconduct in the military continues to frustrate observers.

One opinion writer says that Senator Kamala Harris should be disqualified as a Democratic candidate because she owns a handgun.

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

Maybe there was a better way to get his point across?

There are even higher obligations than taking care of Marines.

The Constitution’s invitation to struggle over foreign policy continues.

Military culture is a strange beast.

Breathless coverage of this freshman Congressman is getting tiresome.

President Trump will get his Space force, but it won’t exactly be what he wanted when he first proposed that idea.