Ash Carter: “Ramadi needs to be retaken, and the way to do it is to have a force under the competent command and control of Iraqi…”

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

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.

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

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