Ash Carter: “Modernization is a key part of restoring readiness.”

Chairman McCain, I appreciate your comments to our Service Chiefs about the damage the CR can do to our institution.

China has and shares important responsibility for this development and has an important responsibility to reverse it.

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

The international community, United Nations Security Council and especially the other six-party powers must hold North Korea accountable for this latest act and heighten the pressure on North Korea.