By prioritizing and investing in evidence-based lifestyle education now, we can begin to enhance our service members’ readiness, lower health care costs and ensure the brave individuals who protect us are physically and mentally prepared to complete the duties we ask of them.

U.S. President Donald Trump relayed his interest in communicating with Iran on its nuclear program directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin in February and administration officials discussed the matter with their Russian counterparts at talks in Saudi Arabia days later, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

Washington County, Wis., is testing two remedies — a housing initiative and a plan to recover lost revenue — that might just revive the dream there and across the country.

The steady militarization of outer space is unfortunate but probably inevitable. This provides further powerful incentives to continue to develop adequate, effective missile defense weapons. The success in development of such defensive technologies is encouraging over the long run.

Kristin Hannah’s book “The Women” is an unforgettable tale of a U.S. Army nurse serving in the brutal Vietnam War. As much as Stars and Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith liked the novel overall, one aspect to her was jarring and felt wrong — the book’s depiction of Stars and Stripes’ coverage of the war.

The firing of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. “CQ” Brown Jr. was not the first time a senior military official had been fired by an unhappy commander in chief. Brown might well have been back in uniform had he heeded what one such official learned the hard way.

Sometimes figuring out who started a war is complicated. But this isn’t World War I or the War of Jenkins’ Ear, says columnist Jonah Goldberg.

There is a real risk of “peacekeeping” being used as an appealing shorthand that lures policymakers into believing that security can be provided on the cheap or without loss of life.

The Trump Gang has really roughed up the staid diplomatic folk of Europe. Or have they?

As the prospects for peace in Ukraine grow, so does the need for scrutiny of the hundreds of billions of dollars in aid that was spent — some say squandered — in support of Kyiv.

Cutting regulations would increase GDP, expand investment and cut inflation without raising taxes.

Effective collaboration between the VA and PACE centers, as called for by the Dole Act, is an important first step, and I am hopeful that over the long term, lawmakers in Congress continue to take steps to expand and implement PACE programs for the millions of eligible veteran participants across the country.

Out of 535 members of the legislative branch, you and I have access only to three — our two senators and one member of the House. Citizens will need to make use of the petition itself — by organizing a massive grassroots campaign to advocate for the restoration of this once sacred, inviolable and unrestricted right

The Biden administration believed it could spend trillions of dollars without overheating the economy, and it got inflation. President Donald Trump’s administration is already making some of the same mistakes.

The reason development assistance should dovetail more closely with foreign policy is not to ensure that aid becomes an arm of politics. More often, it is to ensure that aid survives politics.

Sen. Mark Kelly advocates for a resumption of the Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter Program (NGAD), saying that while conflict with China can be avoided, it is a possibility that the U.S. must be prepared for.

Families of the missing from our foreign wars are concerned that the 90-day freeze in foreign aid funding may impact efforts to clear land identified as sites designated for investigation by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

The key to war is winning it before it even begins. Be brilliant at the basics — train the way you fight and fight the way you train. When it comes to shaping policy, the best solutions come from those practitioners who are doing the work.

Here’s the most important yet overlooked fact about seven Justice Department prosecutors who resigned rather than drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams: The Trump administration could have avoided the whole debacle with the stroke of a pen.