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...
Hagel Setting Out On Last Trip as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will begin his last trip to U.S. bases as defense secretary ahead of Senate confirmation hearings his replacement...
Next Defense Secretary Open to Keeping A-10 in Air Force Ashton Carter agreed to hear arguments from JTACS for keeping the A-10 despite renewed efforts by the Air Force to retire it.
New Defense Secretary Breezes through Nomination Process The Senate approved Ashton Carter Thursday as the next secretary of defense in a vote that saw only five nays.
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...
The Army Has Officially Deployed Laser Weapons Overseas to Combat Enemy Drones A pair of laser weapons has been deployed by the Army to an undisclosed location overseas to blast incoming enemy drones out...
Fired After 6 Months: Army Sacks Commander of Germany Unit Meant to Bolster NATO Against Russia Lt. Col. Eric Ackles, commander of 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, was relieved of command, the service...
Toxic Exposure Screenings: Vets Report Spotty Follow-Up on Questionnaire Meant to Boost Health Care and Benefits Rolled out with great fanfare in November 2022, toxic exposure screenings for all VA patients were mandated by the PACT Act...
Feds Settle Case for $2 Million After Skydiving Plane Took Out Marine Corps Osprey on Runway Nearly four years after a civilian skydiving aircraft collided with a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey sitting on a San Diego runway...
Reports of Mediocre Disability Exams by VA Contractors Prompts Senator's Demand for Answers A prominent Democratic senator is demanding the Department of Veterans Affairs review the quality of its privatized...
![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)")
