“Ash was the best-prepared secretary of defense in our history,” Graham Allison, a distinguished political theorist and Harvard co-worker told the New York Times upon Carter’s passing.

WASHINGTON – Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who served in the final two years of the Obama administration, died Monday, according to a statement from his family.

Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who served in the post under former President Obama, has died at 68, his family announced Tuesday. Carter is survived by his wife, Stephanie, and his children ...

Ash Carter, who served as a U.S. defense secretary during the Obama administration, died late on Monday at the age of 68 after a sudden cardiac event, his family said in a statement on Tuesday.

Ash Carter, former U.S. secretary of defense, addresses an audience, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, at a forum called "Perspectives on National Security," at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on ...

Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who opened combat jobs to women and ended a ban on transgender people serving in the military, has died at age 68. Carter died Monday evening after suffering a ...

Ash Carter dies: Defense secretary under Obama opened combat jobs to women In December 2015, after three years of study and debate, Carter ordered the military to open all jobs to women.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ash Carter, who as defense secretary in the final two years of the Obama administration opened military combat jobs to women and ended a ban on transgender people serving in ...

CARTER ON PUTIN: Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who died Tuesday of a heart attack at his home in Boston at the age of 68, will mostly be remembered for opening military combat roles for ...

Ashton Carter, who served as President Barack Obama’s final defense secretary, has died, his family said. He was 68. Carter, who led the Defense Department from February 2015 to January 2017 ...

Former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter died Monday evening in Boston of a sudden cardiac event. He was 68. “It is with deep and profound sadness that the family of former Secretary of Defense ...