We must always strive to grow and strengthen our security partnerships throughout the region.

I believe our partnerships with India, New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam are solid.

A fully-militarized South China Sea will only serve to enable China to more aggressively pursue these ends.

Assuring our allies and partners of unwavering U.S. commitment.

In my 2016 final assessment on implications of Russia's evolving A2/AD, I underlined three key requirements.

a need for a long-term coalition commitment to Afghanistan, a need for increased coalition forces for training and assisting the Afghan military

the best way to promote security and healthy civil-military relations in Thailand is to engage more, not less, with the Thai leadership.

China is rapidly building a modern, capable military that appears to far exceed its stated defensive purpose or potential military needs.

They are a peer competitor in the Indo-Asia-Pacific, and I deal with them from that perspective.

We must continue to maintain our presence and enhance our qualitative military advantages in order to defeat China in any future armed conflict.

We are in jeopardy now. Now we are at about 80 ships.

For decades, America has been uncontested, and that is no longer the case now.