“There's a violent peace out there, there are going to be problems over the horizon, and certainly that proved to be true.”

—  Leighton W. Smith, Jr.

The End of the Cold War
Interview at USC Berkeley (1997)
Context: I had a role in developing the doctrine From the Sea, which was later modified to Forward From the Sea. But the way we looked at the situation was that the world we live in is a dangerous place. There's a violent peace out there, there are going to be problems over the horizon, and certainly that proved to be true.

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