Randy Forbes: “The administration's rhetoric that they are not removing an aircraft carrier of the fleet simply does not match their…”

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.

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.

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

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.