Pres. Donald Trump was briefed on the attack after his trip to visit victims of the Las Vegas shooting.

Co-authored with Alesha Doan When the President announced his ban on transgender service members he asserted two main arguments

Globe-trotting U.S. special ops forces already deployed to 137 nations in 2017.

Unfortunately, failed states and poorly governed areas along NATO's southern flank remain a major security challenge both

In roughly an hour and a half, at the stroke of midnight separating January 19th and 20th, I will no longer be in the military

In an ironic twist, now that Burch is back in the state he grew up in, his parents, enchanted by Israel on their many visits to see their son, now live there full-time. In a way, Burch muses, it's the closing of a circle that opened decades ago -- when a teenager in search of an identity first asked his mother what exactly it meant to be Jewish.

In May 2016, my family and I sat in a small theater across the street from The University of Tampa. The University of Tampa Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) holds its commissioning ceremony there every year. My daughter stood on the stage looking fit and trim, proud in her dress uniform with a smile that just wouldn't stop. We were all smiling and so very proud.

The new deployment increases U.S. forces in Syria six-fold to about 300.