Ash Carter: “The Department does not have a clear picture of Shia militia recruiting and the impact of Shia militia recruiting on the…”

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.

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.

"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.