Randy Forbes: “I believe that a strong economy requires a strong military to protect the free flow of goods around the world.”

I think reasonable people can have different views on it. My perspective is that the benefits of the Law of the Sea Convention do outweigh any sort of perceived risks.

The threats to freedom of navigation that emanate from the South China Sea and reverberate globally are a great enough threat to the United States.

I am not really--there may be a lot of excuses for not getting there by 2020 for the Air Force, but I am not listening to excuses on the civilian side anymore.

I do not see it as inevitable that we will have a confrontation with China in the South China Sea if we have the correct strategy to avoid such confrontation and potential conflict.