You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on strategy, defense, and foreign affairs. My name is Ryan Evans, I'm the editor-in-chief of War in the rocks.

In this episode we drop in on the national defense strategy and see what sort of progress has been made since it was enacted.

We're also going to focus especially on the technological dimension of great power competition.

Let's go around and introduce ourselves.

Roger Zakheim, director of the Reagan Institute and National Defense Strategy

Enthusiest.

And Hill Veteran, we should say? And a Hill Veteran veteran former general counsel in the house armed services committee

Nina collars Naval War College strategic and operational research Department and also one of the

Plankholders and I guess of the Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute.

Bridge Colby, Director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security.

Banvey-Mazan fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at Brookings, and I guess now that I actually

have a book to show, but a book coming out later this year called The Fateful Triangle,

how China shaped U.S.India relations during the Cold War.

I remember, I'm going to tease the audience for something, that you said that we could talk about you doing a

podcast series on India

after you finished your book called The Elephant in the Room.

Is that still on the table?

TBD, but yes.

Stay tuned.

Let's talk.

Remarkably noncommittal there. That's very

very Indian. If I could do you could see the Indian head nod if you could see the Indian

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