Randy Forbes: “The largest threat to the United States Navy is of our own making.”

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

I believe, if we are to maintain our credibility in the region, if we are to sustain confidence in the rebalance to Asia, that it is extremely important for the Trans-Pacific Partnership to be ratified.

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

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.