Ash Carter: “They really need to take that step, because we can't be the only one on our team with military potential in that…”

It absolutely is. That's why we quadrupled the European Reassurance Initiative.

We need Congress to come together around providing normal, stable, responsible budgets, because the lack of stability represents one of the single biggest strategic risks to our enterprise at DOD.

"Up-or-out" isn't broken--in fact, it's an essential and highly successful system--but it's also not perfect.

The goal of United States policy in Syria is to end the Syrian war--civil war.