Ash Carter: “We need a safe, secure, and reliable nuclear deterrent. The submarine force is a key leg of the triad.”

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

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.

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