Elbridge Colby is the co-founder and a principal of The Marathon Initiative, a policy initiative designed to prepare the United States for an era of great power competition. His new book, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, lays out a plan for preventing China from establishing hegemony over East Asia. It was selected by the Wall Street Journal as one of the Top 10 Books of 2021.

In this season finale, he joins Zack and Jon to talk about his new book and the future of conservative foreign policy.