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Are We Ready? | America's Next Battlefield, With Thomas Shugart

Are We Ready? | America's Next Battlefield, With Thomas Shugart

Update: 2025-10-30
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Thomas Shugart, founder of Archer Strategic Consulting and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the tools and tactics of warfare have changed in the past decade and whether the U.S. military is adapting fast enough to deter a great power war.


 


This is the second episode in a special series from The President’s Inbox, bringing you conversations with Washington insiders to assess whether the United States is ready for a new, more dangerous world.


 


Mentioned on the Episode:


 


Thomas Shugart, "Blue Planet, Red Planet: A New World of Contested Maritime Power," The Shugart Update


 


Thomas Shugart, "Concrete Dome: It's Past Time for an Emergency Anti-Drone Hardening Program," The Shugart Update


 


Thomas Shugart, "Forging Ahead: The PLA Shows Us What It Wants Us to See," The Shugart Update


 


Thomas Shugart, "Has China Been Practicing Preemptive Missile Strikes Against U.S. Bases?" War on the Rocks 


 


Thomas Shugart, "Mind the Gap, Part 2: The Cross-Strait Potential of China’s Civilian Shipping Has Grown," War on the Rocks


 


Thomas Shugart, "There Are No Magic Beans: Easy Options to Deter China Militarily Do Not Exist," War on the Rocks 


 


Thomas Shugart, "The United States Can’t Afford to Not Harden Its Air Bases," War on the Rocks


 


Thomas Shugart, "Trends, Timelines, and Uncertainty: An Assessment of the Military Balance in the Indo-Pacific," Center for a New American Security


 


Timothy A. Walton and Thomas Shugart, "Concrete Sky: Air Base Hardening in the Western Pacific," Hudson Institute 


 


We Are China, "Forging Ahead - Episode 1: Orders Are Sacred 第一集《军令如山》," Youtube.com


 


For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The President’s Inbox at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/tpi/are-we-ready-americas-next-battlefield-thomas-shugart

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Are We Ready? | America's Next Battlefield, With Thomas Shugart

Are We Ready? | America's Next Battlefield, With Thomas Shugart

Council on Foreign Relations