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6 Jan 2024, 6:00 am by Meghan Conroy
”Expert Statement Kellie Carter Jackson (Michael and Denise Kellen ‘68 Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Wellesley College) “Understanding the Historical Context for White Supremacist Violence in America in Tandem with the Events of January 6, 2021”Expert Statement Chicago Project on Security & Threats*Robert Pape (Director, Chicago Project on Security and Threats), Keven Ruby (Senior Research Director, Chicago Project on Security and Threats) and Kyle… [read post]
7 Jul 2023, 1:03 pm by Ryan Goodman
”Expert Statement Kellie Carter Jackson (Michael and Denise Kellen ‘68 Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Wellesley College) “Understanding the Historical Context for White Supremacist Violence in America in Tandem with the Events of January 6, 2021”Expert Statement  Katherine Clayton (Ph.D. [read post]
20 Feb 2022, 7:01 am by Ben Connable
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter stated that “the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. [read post]
24 Nov 2018, 8:34 am by Amy Howe
The events giving rise to the government’s appeals began in 2016, when then-Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced that transgender individuals would be allowed to serve in the military. [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 9:31 pm by Mark Nevitt
To recap the developments leading up to last Friday’s presidential memo, recall that, under President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, transgender service members were on the path to full integration into the military. [read post]
19 Dec 2017, 5:00 am by Philip Bobbitt
And so, despite the urgings of former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft and former diplomat and Under Secretary of State Arnold Kanter in 1994, and Secretaries of Defense William Perry and Ashton Carter in 2006, the U.S. has been content to let things drift along. [read post]
8 Nov 2017, 10:15 am
Then on June 30, 2016, then-Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced that the military was halting its ban on allowing service men and women who are transgender to serve. [read post]
1 Nov 2017, 9:30 pm by Mark Nevitt
At least two plaintiffs in the current lawsuit came forward and identified as transgender after then-Secretary Ashton Carter announced the open service policy. [read post]
16 Aug 2017, 9:30 pm by Mark Nevitt
” President Trump’s disconcerting tweet undercuts years of careful, considered work under the Obama Administration by Department of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and the military service chiefs who sought to fully integrate transgender personnel into the nation’s Armed Forces. [read post]
24 Jul 2017, 11:36 am by Robert Chesney
… Cybercom developed the campaign under pressure from then-Defense Secretary Ashton B. [read post]
10 Apr 2017, 1:40 pm by Brian E. Sweeney
” At the same time, however, the NDAA put the brakes on outgoing Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s fledgling Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental, or DIUx, which was created to target innovation efforts with commercial companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere — pending further review of DIUx’s activities in comparison to other organizations that are also pursuing defense innovation technologies. [read post]
15 Feb 2017, 12:00 pm by Legal Help for Veterans
During a January 8 interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the United States has not done enough to help veterans deal with PTSD and other mental health issues. [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 9:05 am by Jordan Brunner, Quinta Jurecic
In an interview with the AP, outgoing Defense Secretary Ashton Carter cautions against the option of sending thousands of U.S. troops to fight ISIS, warning that the United States would be fighting on unfamiliar turf and would risk alienating its allies. [read post]
18 Jan 2017, 9:46 am by Jordan Brunner, Quinta Jurecic
Top Congressional Republicans expressed their anger at the decision according to Fox News, and The Hill reports that Defense Secretary Ashton Carter also opposed the commutation. [read post]
13 Jan 2017, 11:15 am by Jane Chong, Alice C. Hill
Here are some key excerpts highlighting the security dimensions of climate change and resilience issues: DoD: Citing the President's September 21, 2016 memorandum on Climate Change and National Security, Ashton Carter warns that “the impacts of climate change may increase the frequency, scale, and complexity of future missions, including defense support to civil authorities, while at the same time undermining the capacity of our domestic installations to support training… [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 4:24 pm by Jane Chong
  (1) Ashton Carter, Department of Defense Adjusting to Strategic Change Operationalizing the rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region A strong and balanced strategic approach to deter Russia Deterring North Korea Checking Iran's malign influence while strengthening regional friends and allies Countering terrorists and other violent extremists Iraq and Syria Ensuring Long-Term Stability in Afghanistan Defeating the Global Terrorist Threat Establishing an Alternative to… [read post]
8 Nov 2016, 6:10 am by J. Dana Stuster
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said on October 26 that the operation would start “in the next few weeks,” and defense officials subsequently told the New York Times that they wanted to move quickly to break up the terrorist group’s planning for foreign attacks. [read post]
25 Oct 2016, 7:10 am by J. Dana Stuster
The United States is trying to maintain cooperation between the two governments, and Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said last week that an agreement had been reached “in principle” that balances “respect for the sovereignty of Iraq” and “respect also for Turkey’s historic role in the region. [read post]
14 Sep 2016, 1:11 pm by Rishabh Bhandari
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has deep reservations about the plan for American and Russian forces to jointly target terrorist groups. [read post]