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8 Mar 2015, 9:00 pm by Cody Poplin
Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, and Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey will testify. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 3:56 pm by Matthew Oresman and Steven P. Farmer
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter is in Europe this week to discuss with his NATO counterparts plans to manage long-term tensions with Russia. [read post]
21 Sep 2015, 1:12 pm by Benjamin Wittes
" The real problem, according to the paper, is that Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter is not moving fast enough. [read post]
1 Jun 2016, 11:00 am
We hope more people will add their names, and we will deliver all the signatures to Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, asking him to act quickly to ensure Slahi is freed, once, as we hope, the PRB clears him for transfer. [read post]
3 Feb 2015, 9:19 am by Tara Hofbauer
The Associated Press has obtained a copy of Defense Secretary nominee Ashton Carter’s written responses to a Senate Armed Services Committee questionnaire. [read post]
18 Jun 2015, 3:01 pm by Staley Smith, Quinta Jurecic
At a House Armed Services Committee hearing yesterday, General Martin Dempsey of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter indicated potential openness to allowing a combat role for U.S. troops in Iraq, given the scarcity of Iraqi and Syrian recruits available to train in the fight against ISIS. [read post]
22 Jun 2015, 1:20 pm by Quinta Jurecic , Staley Smith
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter is encouraging NATO to abandon the “Cold War playbook”---that is, to move away from large-scale military operations in favor of a more “mobile” and “agile” approach that can better counteract the blend of conventional and irregular warfare used by Russian forces in Ukraine. [read post]
4 Aug 2015, 11:09 am by Tara Hofbauer
Carter, has become the secretary of reassurance. [read post]
4 Aug 2015, 11:09 am by Tara Hofbauer
Carter, has become the secretary of reassurance. [read post]
25 Jun 2015, 10:50 am by Quinta Jurecic , Staley Smith
  Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter stated that NATO ought to shore up its defenses to cyberattack before it puts energy into developing offensive capabilities for cyberwarfare. [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]
24 Jul 2015, 1:22 pm by Staley Smith, Quinta Jurecic
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter made an unannounced visit to Kurdistan today following his trip to Baghdad yesterday. [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 12:55 pm by Elina Saxena
The Military Times reports Iraq declined the offer made by Defense Secretary Ash Carter to “provide Iraqi army units with close-air support via Apache attack helicopters and also to expand the advise-and-assist mission to include combat advisers at the brigade level” during his visit to Baghdad. [read post]
20 Jul 2015, 12:25 pm by Staley Smith, Quinta Jurecic
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter that the use of military force against Iran remains an option. [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 12:08 pm by Cody M. Poplin, Elina Saxena
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told reporters yesterday that he has recommended to President Obama that he should veto the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act on the grounds that it does not lift sequestration, but instead funnels $38 billion to the Pentagon through a separate war fund. [read post]
Continuing his tour of the Middle East region in the wake of the deal, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter met with Saudi leaders in Jeddah yesterday. [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]
21 Aug 2015, 12:07 pm by Staley Smith, Quinta Jurecic
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is demanding that Ankara do more. [read post]
10 Aug 2015, 10:57 am by Quinta Jurecic , Staley Smith
Here’s the rub: although half of the Gitmo detainees have been cleared to leave, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter must sign the papers to actually let them go. [read post]