Ash Carter: “Much like in December 2013, our only choice is to come together to find a real solution that reflects our strength and…”

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

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

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.

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