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Conversations: with Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Policy Expert & Commentator

John Anderson: Conversations

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The Future of American Capacity

In many ways I find comfort in that because it is the way that I see it so stir the giant and see what happens people need to keep in mind that America carries a lot of sting. The place where I'm most worried about the failure of US defense planning and capability is that 15 years ago no sane person anywhere in the world thought that China had a chance to land a single boat on the shore of Taiwan without in the face of US opposition. Today the war games and the other indications that we get say that we're in kind of a gray zone where there are scenarios under which China could win at least for the short term. On the day of judgment Neville Chamberlain will rise and condemn

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