Randy Forbes: “I think the American people have a right to know, and not just wait until after the election, what these cuts are going…”

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.

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.

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.