Defense Secretary Ash Carter says his department could request additional overseas contingency operations money to pay for President Obama's new plan to keep 8,400 U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan, rather than the 5,500 that were initially budgeted for fiscal year 2017. "We're looking at that right now. Chairman Thornberry recognized that point, we recognize that point as well," Carter said, according to a July 7 Defense Department transcript of his conversation with reporters on the way to a NATO summit...
