Ash Carter: “We have an obligation to protect.”

This, for the eighth fiscal year in a row. That's a deplorable state of affairs.

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

The United States will not ignore attempts to interfere with our democratic processes.

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.