“[A]ny seagoing vessel—commercial or military, from the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea to the Caribbean—could be monitored by the United States Navy, who could choose to watch it, stop it, or sink it.”

—  George Friedman

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 44

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