Ash Carter: “I have been arguing for a peace-through-strength approach that really puts reliance on agility, strategic maneuver, and…”

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.

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

The United States will not ignore attempts to interfere with our democratic processes.

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