Ash Carter: “Our principal response to that as a country and as the West is the truth.”

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.

"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.