Carter Outlines U.S. Security Strategy in Tight-budget Era

By Amaani Lyle - American Forces Press Service

DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 30, 2012 – In a speech at Duke University here yesterday, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter outlined new security strategies and challenges that he said will define the nation’s future in a post-war era of fiscal constraint.

Carter said the need to keep the department’s “fiscal house in order” after more than a decade of war and under the threat of sequestration has spurred an approach of rebalancing and innovation as the Defense Department pivots to the Asia-Pacific region.

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