Randy Forbes: “Readiness is critical to our national defense and the safety of our troops.”

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 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.

This country, this committee, this Congress needs to move back to strategic thinking where we have a comprehensive strategic plan.

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.