Ash Carter: “We are also quadrupling the European Reassurance Initiative, which allows us to do more with our NATO partners there.”

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

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

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.

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.