Bridge Colby, the co-founder and principal at the Marathon Institute who is the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development during the Trump administration where he was the official leading the development of the 2018 National Defense Strategy, discusses his book “The Strategy of Denial: Defense in the Age of Great Power Conflict,” how China plans to fight, how the United States and its allies need to deter China and other powers, creating and maintaining an Anti-Hegemonic Coalition, countering a united alliance among China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, and what constitutes good and bad strategy with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. This conversation is part of a series of discussions with leading thinkers and strategists and dedicated to the memory of Andy Marshall, the former director of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, and sponsored by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems.