Ep 103: Sean Mirski on American Hegemony

School of War · Dec 19, 2023 · 52m

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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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…