Ash Carter: “Merely to say that the F-35 program started before we enacted the acquisition reform is not going to be an acceptable…”

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

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

What he's trying to do is exactly what you're calling attention to, namely to end the humanitarian disaster occasioned by the civil war in Syria.

It absolutely is. That's why we quadrupled the European Reassurance Initiative.