Ash Carter: “We need your help with both.”

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

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.

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