Congressman Mike Gallagher, U.S. representative for Wisconsin’s 8th district and chair of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, joins the show to discuss his time as a Marine in Iraq, the dangers posed by the CCP, from Tik-Tok to maritime threats, and the crisis confronting our military’s culture.▪️Times • 01:26 Introduction• 02:11 The China Committee• 08:56 What’s the problem with Tik-Tok?• 13:12 A reverse Opium War • 15:25 A Marine from Green Bay • 21:16 On the ground in Iraq• 28:52 What’s the American interest in Taiwan?• 32:05 Consequences of Taiwan’s defeat• 38:21 Marine Corps force design• 41:42 The Navy’s fighting spirit• 46:31 Culture in the military
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This podcast seeks to learn what war teaches. There has been a steady decline in the study of military history and its associated theoretical discipline, strategy.This podcast seeks to fill that gap through in-depth interviews on military and diplomatic history. Our guests have included former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis, and former China Select Committee chairman Mike Gallagher. We discuss the battlefield commanders, diplomats, strategists, policymakers, and statesmen who have had to make wartime decisions in the ancient and modern eras. The subject of an episode may be an historical battle, campaign, o...