Randy Forbes: “We don't want our budgets to be driving our strategy but our strategy is driving our budget”

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 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.

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 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.