ABSTRACT
I have spent most of my adult life being concerned with the Soviet Union. I speak not as a scholar but as one occupied with the practical effects of Soviet security policy. My principal interests during my early years were narrowly based, concerned with matters of the sea and of navies. But in the latter part of my naval career, as one of NATO's three Supreme Commanders, and responsible to fifteen governments for maritime affairs in the eastern Atlantic and most of the waters of northwestern Europe, I was much more broadly concerned with the wider aspects of Soviet foreign policy. For senior military officers today need to be as much the "managers of peace" as they are the "captains of war."
