Randy Forbes: “Our subcommittee has long supported this strategic rebalance and I believe that a forward-based, credible presence is…”

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.

There is no legal authority to draw a big circle in the water a thousand miles long and then claim it as some sort of special zone or internal waters.

I believe that we can inject enough doubts into the minds of China's leaders about its use in the scenarios we worry most about.

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.