Former US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has died. The 68-year-old died Monday of a heart attack, Harvard University dean Douglas Elmendorf said Tuesday. Carter taught at the facility.
“The United States and the world know Ash Carter for his lifelong dedication to serving this country, defending this country’s best values, and building a safer world for all people,” Elmendorf said in recognition of the former secretary.
At the head of the Pentagon under Obama
Carter headed the Pentagon from 2015 to 2017 under then-US President Barack Obama. Under him, the United States also opened its combat troops to women. “We cannot afford to lose 50 percent of the country’s opportunities and talent,” he said at the time. Carter served as Deputy Secretary of Defense from 2011 to 2013. He gained significant experience as Secretary of State at the Pentagon in arms sourcing, logistics and new technologies.
Born in 1954 in the American metropolis of Philadelphia, Carter had already held a senior position in the Department of Defense in the 1990s and eventually climbed the career ladder in political Washington. He previously studied at the elite universities of Yale, Oxford and Harvard, including physics, and later taught at several universities.
Source: Krone
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