Randy Forbes: “We are constantly trying to get the balance between whether or not the budget is driving our defense strategy or our…”

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.

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.