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Sean Mirski, author of We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus, joins the show to talk about how the United States came to its global position and China’s attempts to match it.
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• 01:40 Introduction
• 2:22 An accidental project
• 6:41 The view from Washington
• 13:18 American paranoia
• 16:43 Post Civil War Mexico
• 22:04 Smedley Butler
• 24:46 The problem of order
• 31:12 After WWI
• 33:04 Strategic vulnerabilities
• 38:32 Regional hegemony
• 44:51 A desire to dominate
• 48:36 A lesson and a warning
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Sean Mirski, author of We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus, joins the show to talk about how the United States came to its global position and China’s attempts to match it.
▪️
Times
• 01:40 Introduction
• 2:22 An accidental project
• 6:41 The view from Washington
• 13:18 American paranoia
• 16:43 Post Civil War Mexico
• 22:04 Smedley Butler
• 24:46 The problem of order
• 31:12 After WWI
• 33:04 Strategic vulnerabilities
• 38:32 Regional hegemony
• 44:51 A desire to dominate
• 48:36 A lesson and a warning
Here is a link to the article discussed today
Follow along on Instagram
Find a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack

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