Ashton Carter, the White House’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, only left the five-sided building a little over a year ago, but his nomination hearing Wednesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee highlighted just how much the world has changed in the meantime — and just how difficult his new job will be as a result.
When Carter stepped down as deputy defense secretary in December 2013, Russia was in the headlines for the insanely expensive Winter Olympics it was about to host in Sochi. A few months later, violence rocked Kiev and pro-Russian gunmen seized government buildings in Crimea, unleashing …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
