Randy Forbes: “Because I believe that over the next decade or two, so goes the United States Navy, so goes the national defense of this…”

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

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

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