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 todayFollow along  on InstagramFind a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War Substack