Randy Forbes: “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…”

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.

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

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 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.