Ash Carter: “The Department of Defense has no plans to cooperate with Iran directly on Syria or Iraq.”

The goal of United States policy in Syria is to end the Syrian war--civil war.

Iran's ballistic missile activities pose a significant threat to the Joint Force and our regional allies and partners, particularly Israel.

"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.