Is America Ready For War With China? w/Colin Carroll

The Andrew Klavan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Colin Carroll, CEO of Atropos, and former Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of War under Pete Hegseth, joins me for a riveting discussion about the effort to rebuild America’s military in the face of growing Chinese encroachment. - - - Today's Sponsor: Policygenius - Head to https://policygenius.com/KLAVAN to compare life insurance quotes from top companies and see how much you could save. - - - Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://dailywire.com/subscribe 🍿 The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin is now streaming exclusively on DailyWire+ Watch now: https://dwplus.watch/ThePendragon Subscribe here: https://pendragonseries.com 🔥 Friendly Fire is here! No moderator, no safe words. Now available: https://dailywire.com/show/friendly-fire 📙 My NY Times best-selling non-fiction book, "The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness" has been nominated for an Edgar Award! Available for purchase here: https://dwplus.shop/KingdomofCain 📘 My latest novel, "After That, The Dark" is available here: https://dwplus.shop/AfterThatTheDark 📚 Save the Klavan by shopping my merch here: https://dwplus.shop/AndrewKlavanMerch - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.2	The Trump admin realizes that. You liked the process. The Trump admin
0:38.0	realizes that the process is the obstacle. This admin is basically done away with that. Like,
0:43.6	the principles will make decisions. Hi, I'm Andrew Claven with this week's interview with Colin Carroll.
1:04.6	One of the things that has been astounding about the Trump administration is the use of the military and incredibly successful
1:12.6	missions like the one in Iran and the bombing of the Iran nuclear facility and the taking
1:19.3	of the leader of Maduro out of Venezuela, just kind of insane stuff, the military being used
1:25.2	at its peak, weaponry being used at its peak, weaponry being used as peak as opposed to
1:29.5	Afghanistan, where so many mistakes were made and where the rules of engagement were so
1:34.2	constraining.
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