Randy Forbes: “Decline is a choice, and I believe this new plan willingly chooses to continue the slow, painful decline of robust…”

This country, this committee, this Congress needs to move back to strategic thinking where we have a comprehensive strategic plan.

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.

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.