Former SecDef Weighs in on Syria, Turkey and Mattis' Departure Former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is out with a book on the inner workings of the Pentagon.
Ash Carter, Former Defense Secretary Who Allowed Women into Combat Roles, Dies Carter served during the latter years of the Obama administration from 2015 to 2017 and helped lead the department strategy...
New SecDef Says President Obama Needs Military’s Help New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Thursday that President Obama needs policy guidance from a military perspective.
Defense Hawks Win Support for War 'Slush Fund' The House of Representatives has voted in favor of a fiscal 2016 budget that includes almost $100 billion in war funding for...
Petraeus Disagrees with Carter, Says Iraqis Have ‘Will To Fight’ Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus disagreed with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's charge that the Iraqis lacked the will to...
Pentagon Awards Deal for Wearable Devices in Silicon Valley Push The Defense Department awarded a contract for wearable electronic devices as part of a push to work more closely with Silicon...
Army Planners Are Weighing Force Reductions of Up to 90,000 Active-Duty Soldiers The Army is quietly considering a sweeping reduction of up to 90,000 active-duty troops, a move that underscores mounting...
Commander of Air Force Weather Wing Fired After Legal Troubles Earlier This Year Col. Joseph Coughlin, commander of the 557th Weather Wing at Offutt, was removed from his position Tuesday "due to a loss of...
Top US General Argues Against Giving Up Command of NATO at Senate Hearing Giving up American military leadership of the NATO alliance would be "problematic," Gen. Christopher Cavoli told senators...
Capitol Hill Wants $15 Billion for Weapons Pentagon Didn’t Seek: Report The spending directions from Congress are included in tables that Republican Defense appropriators sent the department last...
'Psychological Warfare': Veterans Fired from Federal Government Speak Out at Informal Hearing Air Force veteran Shernice Mundell was testifying at a "shadow hearing" organized by Senate Veteran Affairs Committee ranking...
![Ash Carter, former U.S. secretary of defense, addresses an audience](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2022-10/ApNewsroom_People_Maddow_Harvard_31145.jpg?itok=X7ei3aJ6 "Ash Carter, former U.S. secretary of defense, addresses an audience, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, at a forum called "Perspectives on National Security," at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)")
