117 | Elliot Ackerman, Part II: What Would a War with China Look Like?

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

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🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack, now released on Thursdays: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Check out Elliot and Admiral Stavridis’s Bookshop recommendations on the U.S. and China, foreign policy, and warfare: https://bookshop.org/lists/2034-admiral-james-stavridis-and-elliot-ackerman-book-recommendations Elliot Ackerman, co-author of 2034: A Novel of the Next World War and Marine combat veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, joins The Realignment to follow up on the pod’s conversation with Admiral James Stavridis, the legacy of the “forever” wars in the Middle East and Central Asia, what history teaches us about a future U.S.-China conflict, and of course, the weakened state of the two-party system.

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0:00.0	Saga and Marshall here welcome back to the realignment.
0:04.0	That's why I said we are engaging in late-empower behavior.
0:15.1	Are we at an end of art?
0:16.1	I don't know because the empire hasn't fallen yet.
0:18.9	So if it's whether or not it falls, right?
0:21.2	Are you an alcoholic?
0:22.2	Loose the say.
0:23.2	Are you engaging in alcoholic behavior?
0:25.2	If you drink too much, throw up all your dashboards and crash your car.
0:28.2	I would argue yes, you are engaging in alcoholic behavior.
0:31.7	So I think when we fight a war for 20 years, that particularly in the last 15 years of
0:40.6	it doesn't really seem to have a purpose that our policy makers can clearly articulate
0:45.1	to the American people.
0:46.7	And that war is structured around a all-volunteer military and is funded through depth as
0:53.2	it's expanding.
1:01.2	As you all noticed from the title, this is the first time we have ever done a part two
1:06.5	of an episode.
1:08.2	We were honestly shocked how engaged and riveted everyone was by our conversation with Adam
1:14.6	Rost of Redis about his book 2034, a novel of the next War War.
1:20.0	Unfortunately, due to the fact that we are interviewing a retired admiral who is in Kirby
1:24.3	Busy, we can only talk with him for roughly 45 minutes.
1:28.2	So we wanted to do something special for everyone today, especially given the ramping up of
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