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...
Pentagon Won't Confirm Ashton Carter is Next Defense Secretary Rear Adm. Kirby says he won't play "parlor game" with press over the possible nomination of Ashton Carter
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...
Trump Orders VA to Build Homeless Veterans Center on West LA Campus The future of a 388-acre campus in Los Angeles that was donated more than a century ago to house disabled veterans has been...
Navy Subs, Nuclear Secrets and Beer: The Riveting History of Bay Area’s Mare Island Mare Island supported the Navy during both world wars and helped spy efforts during the Cold War by using nuclear submarines...
Fort Carson Soldier One of 1,000 Leaving After Transgender Ban Temporarily Upheld Fort Carson Sgt. Mason Benavides is leaving an Army that no longer wants him.
Trump Wants to Attack Drug Cartels. How Can Mexico Respond if He Does? Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum may soon face her most challenging test -- and her response could define bilateral...
Rattlesnake Wranglers Help Conserve Michigan’s Only Venomous Snake at Military Base Each spring, dozens of conservation researchers and volunteers descend on the Michigan Army National Guard base in northern...
![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)")
