Defense Secretary Ash Carter, speaking in advance of the July summit in Warsaw, called on NATO to do more in the fight against ISIS, including approving another deployment of NATO E-3 AWACS and additional training forces inside Iraq. “I like the things that we are discussing today, and I hope the heads of state approve both the AWACS and the defense capability building and training aspects,” Carter said at the end of a meeting of NATO defense ministers on Wednesday in Brussels. “There’s going to be more that each of us as individual nations can do to hasten the destruction of ISIL.” NATO already is doing a good job generating forces to help train Iraqi forces to hold territory it has gained inside the country, Carter said. But, the alliance could provide more logistics support. “All this stuff is very important to getting victory and sustaining victory,” he said. While some individual countries have accelerated their participation in Operation Inherent Resolve, the organization itself needs to “keep accelerating” to hasten the destruction of ISIS. (See also: Rallying the Allies.)
NASA Boss: Race to Moon Has National Security Stakes
Sept. 15, 2026
NASA is pushing hard to get astronauts back to the moon by 2028—and the urgency is driven in no small part by the national security implications of doing so before China does, Administrator Jared Isaacman said Sept. 15.
