Randy Forbes: “It is for these reasons and many more that a rebalance to the Pacific theater is in our strategic interests.”

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.

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