Randy Forbes: “There is probably no issue more difficult and fraught with emotion than with the use of land.”

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.

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

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.

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.