Ash Carter

The U.S. military has temporarily curtailed off-base liberty and banned all alcohol consumption for almost 20,000 U.S. sailors stationed in Japan. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)

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All U.S. sailors in Japan prohibited from drinking

Jamie McIntyre · June 6, 2016 6:28 pm

The Navy, Carter told the newly minted officers, will play a vital role in checking Chinese ambitions. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Carter: China risks building ‘great wall of self-isolation’

Jamie McIntyre · May 27, 2016 3:16 pm

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Carter’s 4 bad budget arguments

Justin Johnson · May 26, 2016 4:01 am

On Monday, Carter returns to his alma mater 40 years later to preside over a joint Navy and Air Force ROTC Ceremony to commission the first group of seniors to graduate ROTC since it was restored to the campus in 2012. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Le, File)

Carter commissions first Yale ROTC cadets since Vietnam War

Jamie McIntyre · May 23, 2016 4:01 am

President Obama as he is briefed by Marine General Joseph Dunford, commander of the US-led International Security Assistance Force at Bagram Air Field. U.S. troops are in combat in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, and maybe in Somalia and Libya, too. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

‘Semantic backflips’: White House struggles with ‘combat’

Jamie McIntyre · May 23, 2016 4:01 am

Officials said the effort in Libya will be similar to the "advise and assist" missions in Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ben Khalifa, File)

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U.S. readies expansion of counter-ISIS effort in Libya

Jamie McIntyre · May 20, 2016 5:43 pm

Carter said the bill is "gambling with warfighting money at a time of war." (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Carter threatens veto of defense policy bill over ‘budget gimmick’

Jamie McIntyre · May 19, 2016 7:43 pm

Sailors watch as an X-47B Navy drone does a flyby the USS George H.W. Bush after it was launched from the ship off the coast of Virginia Tuesday, May 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Navy fuels drone wars

Jacqueline Klimas · May 16, 2016 4:01 am

Carter announced the start of "DIUx 2.0," a shakeup to the office on Pentagon partnerships with Silicon Valley. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

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Carter announces shakeup at Silicon Valley tech hub

Jacqueline Klimas · May 11, 2016 5:10 pm

Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, introduced an amendment to the bill to strike the language added by the committee that would require all 18- to 26-year-old women to register with the Selective Service. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Lawmaker aims to kill amendment requiring women to sign up for the draft

Jacqueline Klimas · May 10, 2016 1:48 pm

Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, struck back Friday at "factual inaccuracies" in a Pentagon letter sent last week that accused his panel of employing overly aggressive tactics to secure witnesses and documents. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Gowdy: Pentagon launched ‘overly partisan’ attack on Benghazi panel

Sarah Bedford · May 6, 2016 8:29 pm

Briefers are increasingly drawing a distinction between "a combat situation" as opposed to plain "combat." (Capt. Charles Emmons, Headquarters, Resolute Support)

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Is ‘combat situation’ the new combat?

Jamie McIntyre · May 5, 2016 5:45 pm