Ash Carter: “The Nation's nuclear deterrent is, "the last thing that you want to do serious damage to."”

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.

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.