Randy Forbes: “I believe we must be 100 percent intolerant of China's territorial claims and its continued resort to forms of military…”

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.

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.

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.

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