Outside the Beltway

It’s time for another round of speculation about Iran and its nuclear program.

SFC Kristoffer Bryan Domeij was killed in action in Afghanistan Saturday, on his fourteenth combat tour.

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

Anesthesiologist Eugene Lipov thinks he has found a cheap, effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. The Army won’t fund it.

While most of the Nike “pro combat” uniforms that college teams have worn over the last few years have been garish one-offs never seen again after their debut game, their revamp of the Navy unies is actually an upgrade

Romney’s VFW speech was filled with tropes and bromides but nothing that should raise eyebrows.

A Navy board of inquiry consisting of three admirals has voted to keep Captain Owen Honors, who was relieved as captain of the Enterprise, on active duty.

Joseph Nye explains why China’s “demand the United States address its structural debt problems and ensure the safety of China’s dollar assets” is really just talk.

Former Oregon governor and long-time US Senator Mark Hatfield has died.

A disastrous day for American troops in Afghanistan.

British professor Julian Lindley-French offers a tongue-in-cheek essay for the 4th of July: “American Independence: Time to End the Experiment.”

The venerable Brooks Brothers is getting into the college apparel business, selling sweaters and polos for Boston College; the U.S. Naval Academy, Auburn, Cornell, Harvard, New York, Ohio State, Princeton, Stanford, and Vanderbilt Universities and the Universities of Alabama, Georgia, Notre Dame and Virginia.

Should President Obama do whatever General Petraeus wants in Afghanistan?

President Obama is expected to announce the withdrawal of the 30,000 Surge troops.

Army Sergeant First Class Leroy Arthur Petry will become the ninth Medal of Honor recipient for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan–and one of only two who lived to tell the tale.

Commander Dave Koss, the head of the Navy’s Blue Angels, has “voluntarily” resigned after repeated unsafe maneuvers.

The Navy’s director of warfare integration says China is a “smart and learning enemy.”

The selection process for the Joint Chiefs has been most odd.

Now here’s a story you don’t see every day: The head coach of a major college basketball team leaving for a service academy.

No, Ron Paul is not a viable candidate for president.

Video of the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden

Is the war in Libya illegal?

The Navy is considering allowing its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages once “Dont ask, Don’t tell” ends.

Did a deal between the U.S. and Pakistan during the infancy of the war against al Qaeda play a role in the raid against Osama bin Laden?

Safia bin Laden says that her infamous father was caught alive by U.S. forces and murdered in cold blood.

Congress is getting complaints that calling the Osama raid “Geronimo” is offensive to Indians.

There has been some buzz on the national security backchannels that a heretofore secret “stealth” helicopter was used in the SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout.