Ash Carter: “Our country has friends and allies in every corner of the world, and our adversaries have few.”

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

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

Iran's ballistic missile activities pose a significant threat to the Joint Force and our regional allies and partners, particularly Israel.

I can't support, and won't support, is anything that moves towards instability.