WASHINGTON: Randy Forbes pretty much looks like a hawk. The House seapower subcommittee chairman has fought for a bigger battle fleet with long-range drone bombers, called for China to be kicked out of the international RIMPAC wargames and blasted the Obama administration for its lack of a tough Pacific strategy.
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What Navy’s New Maritime Strategy Should Say
By JOHN LEHMAN and REP. J. RANDY FORBESIt’s fair to say that John Lehman is the most influential Navy Secretary of the last half century. Under President Ronald Reagan, Lehman “had an almost revolutionary impact on the Navy,” according to naval expert Norm Polmar. Lehman drove hard and pushed to build what has become known as the 600-ship Navy. Lehman knows how a… Keep reading →
House GOP Splits On Defense Sequestration
By COLIN CLARK & SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR.CAPITOL HILL: Tensions within the GOP over the mandatory budget caps set by the Budget Control Act burst into the open recently. The chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee repeatedly warned colleagues and the leaders of the Air Force this morning that they had no choice and must live within the Budget Control Act’s spending limits. Then,… Keep reading →
Rep. Randy Forbes Rips 2016 Request: A ‘Wish List’
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr | Breaking DefenseWASHINGTON: The Republican congressman who oversees the Navy actually likes Barack Obama’s 2016 defense budget — except for one small thing: It isn’t really a budget. “It would be almost a misnomer to call this a budget. It’s [just] numbers,” Rep. Randy Forbes told me this morning, in advance of tomorrow’s budget hearing. “If you… Keep reading →