Keeping an eye on :wikipedia: #Wikipedia page "Peace Through Strength" now that the Trump Admin is claiming Trump came up with the term.
I remember hearing Ronald Reagan blather about it in the 1980s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_through_strength
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#USPol #PeaceThroughStrength #Iran
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peace_through_strength&diff=prev&oldid=1306557
Trademark Dispute:
During Reagan's presidency, the non-profit American Security Council Foundation (ASCF) and its for-profit direct-mail provider, Communications Corporation of America, sought to influence United States foreign policy by promoting the idea, but after the Soviet collapse of 1991, ASCF fell into obscurity, and other organizations continued to promote the slogan.
The Heritage Foundation and the Center for Security Policy (CSP) have also used the term in print.
The ASCF registered a trademark for the phrase in April 2011.
In September 2012, ASCF filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against CSP and Frank Gaffney, prompting the Washington City Paper to ridicule ASCF's Director of Operations, Gary James, for editing the online encyclopedia Wikipedia article titled 'Peace through strength' so that it was "drenched in ... ASCF references".
Following a counterclaim by the CSP alleging that the trademark application had been fraudulent, in August 2013 the ACSF announced that it had settled the lawsuit with the CSP and would cancel its trademark claim.