Randy Forbes: “Can you tell me any other inspirational quote that cadets have been forced to remove from their personal whiteboards…”

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.

In the coming decades, this is the region where the largest armies in the world will camp.

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.