Ash Carter: “I do agree with General Odierno.”

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

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

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

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.