Ash Carter: “We protected the operations of the nuclear forces under sequester.”

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.

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