Ash Carter: “The battlefield situation informs the efforts to train and equip the Iraqi Kurds and Sunni tribes.”

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

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.

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

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