Ash Carter: “We are still the world's greatest fighting force.”

What he's trying to do is exactly what you're calling attention to, namely to end the humanitarian disaster occasioned by the civil war in Syria.

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

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

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.