Ash Carter: “The U.S. approach to the Arctic should support our core objectives to ensure security and promote defense cooperation.”

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

"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.

Chairman McCain, I appreciate your comments to our Service Chiefs about the damage the CR can do to our institution.