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| Ashton Carter Brings Different Outl |
| Ashton Carter Brings Different Outlook to Pentagon Post
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 5-December-2014
4:37:52 AM |
| The experiences that Ashton Carter would bring to the job of US Secretary of Defense are vastly different from Chuck Hagel's in several important ways, starting with the fact that Carter is an academic and a policy wonk.
How Carter would pursue US President Barack Obama's defense agenda - or use his influence to bend it in new directions - is less obvious.
Obama is to announce today that he will nominate Carter as Hagel's successor. Carter would, if confirmed by the Senate, be the fourth Pentagon Chief of Obama's Presidency, following Robert Gates, Leon Panetta and Hagel.
Carter has left an extensive paper trail from his many years in Washington, including three stints at the Pentagon, a trail that suggests a sometimes hard-nosed view of policy puzzles like North Korea and Russia.
In 1999 Carter and former Defense Secretary William Perry co-wrote a book, "Preventive Defense," spelling out dangers that, if mismanaged, could grow into "true A-list-scale threats" to the US.
First on their list: the risk that "Russia might descend into chaos, isolation and aggression." They called this the risk of a "Weimar Russia," harking back to the failures of the international system in dealing with xenophobic Germany after World War I. They wrote of their fear that Russia "could fall prey to its worst tendencies."
Russia, today, is among the biggest policy challenges facing the Obama administration, with its annexation of Crimea in March and subsequent military moves inside eastern Ukraine
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