#1264 Elbridge Colby on How America Can Prepare For China Conflict

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Elbridge Colby is the co-founder and principal of the Marathon Initiative, a policy initiative focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition. He is the author of “The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict.” In this conversation, we talk about the threat from China, Ukraine & Russia, what is happening between Hamas & Israel, how this all feeds into the economic strength of America, how private sector can make an impact, and what America can do right now to put us in a better position.

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Many of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp
0:07.7	podcast, which is my effort to find the most interesting people in the world and sit with them for hours while I ask questions in an effort to learn. So it would mean the world to me if you would subscribe to the show on your favorite audio platform, watch episodes on YouTube,
0:21.1	and tell your friends and family about the podcast. My goal is to help millions learn from the
0:26.5	world's most interesting people. So let's get in to today's episode. Elbridge Colby is the
0:32.5	co-founder and principal of the Marathon Initiative, a policy initiative focused on developing
0:37.1	strategies to prepare the
0:38.5	United States for an era of sustained great power competition.
0:42.5	He is the author of The Strategy of Denial, American Defense in an age of great power conflict,
0:48.5	which the Wall Street Journal selected is one of the top 10 books of 2021.
0:52.7	Earlier in his career, Colby served as the Deputy Assistant
0:56.5	Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development from 2017 to 2018 as well. In this conversation,
1:03.3	we talk about the threat from China, what's going on in Ukraine and Russia, what exactly is happening
1:08.8	with Hamas and Israel, How this all feeds into the
1:11.8	economic strength of America, whether private sector companies like Andrew and others can actually
1:16.4	make a dent in our military readiness, and what Eldbridge thinks is actually on the table
1:23.0	for what America could do right now to put us in a better position in a geopolitical global world.
1:29.5	I really enjoyed this conversation, and I hope that you guys enjoyed it as well.
1:33.5	Here is my conversation with Elbridge Colby.
1:37.8	Anthony Pompliano runs Pomp Investments.
1:40.5	All views of him and the guests on his podcast are surely their opinions and do not
1:45.0	reflect the opinions of pomp investments. You should not treat any opinion expressed by
1:49.4	pomp or his guest as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular
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