Ashton Carter

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Ashton Carter (2015)

Ashton Baldwin Carter (born September 25, 1954 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . He was Deputy Secretary of Defense from October 2011 to December 2013 and the 25th Secretary of Defense of the United States under President Barack Obama from February 2015 to January 2017 .

education and profession

Secretary of Defense Carter speaking in March 2015

Carter graduated from Yale University , where he received a bachelor's degree in medieval history and physics in 1976 . There he was accepted into the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. He received a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship in 1979 . Carter then held various teaching and consulting activities, including at Harvard Kennedy School , Rockefeller University , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Stanford University and for investment companies such as Goldman Sachs . Arms control of nuclear weapons is his academic subject . In 1993, Carter became Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy at the Pentagon under William Perry and was responsible for security issues relating to the former Soviet republics . Carter played an important role in resolving the First Nuclear Crisis in North Korea in 1994.

From April 2009 to October 2011 he was Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics and thus responsible for infrastructure, technology, energy and environmental protection of the armed forces. Subsequently, Carter was United States Deputy Secretary of Defense until December 2013 . As early as January 2013, he was considered a promising candidate to succeed Leon Panetta , but was not considered and asked by President Obama to serve another year in the Pentagon under Chuck Hagel .

On February 12, 2015, the Senate approved Carter's appointment as Secretary of Defense by 93 votes to five. Carter replaced Chuck Hagel, who had resigned in November 2014 after almost two years in office under pressure from US President Barack Obama, Carter was the fourth Pentagon chief since Obama's inauguration in January 2009.

Carter is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Aspen Strategy Group . He is the author or co-author of 11 books and has published more than 100 articles, including for Foreign Affairs and the Washington Post . Carter is married with two children.

Works

  • Ashton B. Carter, Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future: a Publication of the Preventive Defense Project. A Research Collaboration of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Stanford University . MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2001, ISBN 978-0-2620-3290-2
  • Ashton B. Carter, William James Perry: Preventive defense: A New Security Strategy for America . Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC 1999, ISBN 978-0-8157-9100-3
  • Ashton B. Carter, John D. Steinbruner, Charles A. Zraket (Eds.): Managing Nuclear Operations . Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC 1987, ISBN 978-0-8157-1313-5
  • Ashton B. Carter: Ballistic Missile Defense . Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC 1984, ISBN 978-0-8157-0576-5

Web links

Commons : Ashton Carter  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ashton Carter ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Official US Department of Defense biography, on blogs.usembassy.gov. Retrieved October 23, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.usembassy.gov
  2. Jump up ↑ a b c Helene Cooper, Mark Landlerdec: Obama Is Said to Pick Ashton Carter, Physicist and Ex-Deputy, as Defense Secretary . The New York Times December 2, 2014, accessed December 3, 2014
  3. ↑ a b biography of Ashton Carter on website Belfer Center, Harvard University , PDF, accessed on December 3, 2014 (English)
  4. ↑ Senate confirms Ashton Carter as new Secretary of Defense on FAZ online, February 12, 2015. Accessed October 23, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Carter, Ashton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carter, Ashton Baldwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania