Ash Carter: “The sequester will impact long-term readiness, as well as future defense research, in favor of a reckless plan to reduce…”

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

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

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

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.