Dr. Timothy Heath, a senior international defense researcher at the RAND Corporation who served as the senior analyst for the US Pacific Command’s China Strategic Focus Group, discusses the new report — co-authored with Kristen Gunness and Tristan Finazzo — “The Return of Great Power War:Scenarios of Systemic Conflict Between the United States and China,” what would drive Beijing to change its global posture, how best to deter China from miscalculating, the stability of the regime, and how Washington should shore up its global alliances and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. This conversation is sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and devoted to the memory of one of the nation’s greatest national security strategists, Andy Marshall, the former director of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment. The strategy series is not affiliated with the Andrew W. Marshall Foundation.