Randy Forbes: “If we keep moving the direction we are and we get down to 255 or 260 ships, we cease to be a superpower.”

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 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.

I also see an opportunity for a new administration to take a new and stronger stance on the South China Sea.

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.