Randy Forbes: “We are an 11-carrier Navy in a 15-carrier world.”

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 concerned that China's president and the Chinese Government may see President Obama's last few months as a window of opportunity for establishing an air defense identification zone [ADIZ], expanding reclamation activities to…

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.