Ross Douthat
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4,896 appearances
23 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 27 Aug
Ross Douthat’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think that's fair.
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Which is just to say you are currently at the Pentagon in a policy job where your role is to think about strategy.
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And you've been thinking about strategy for as long as I've known you.
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And I'm going to start by asking you strategic questions.
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What is the Trump administration's grand strategy?
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Just overall, what are you trying to achieve?
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What we're doing and what you can see-
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So I want to take that agenda and go
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theater by theater and talk about how it plays out around the world.
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So China, right?
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In the first Trump term, you were part of the group that wrote the national security strategy that identified China as the U.S.
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's geopolitical
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I don't know what language you want to use, but rival, adversary, right?
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In the second Trump administration, there seemed to be a certain amount of internal debate about whether that framing is correct, whether you want to emphasize more hemispheric defense or defense of the homeland and so on.
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So just give me your perspective.
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Is China...
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Just for viewers and listeners, tell them what the first island chain is.
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And is Taiwan considered part of the first island?
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I don't think that at all.
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So just just for backdrop, you wrote a book called Strategy of Denial, which was a book arguing specifically that U.S.
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