Ash Carter: “I have consistently emphasized to them that they have a unique role, here, and also, insofar as they're concerned about…”

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

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

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

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