Elbridge Colby Featured in The Critic (Book Review)

Despite some such unanswered questions, The Strategy of Denial is a terrific new contribution to the literature. Colby is right to point out that there are limitations on what the US can do, and that it is time for threat prioritisation and trade-offs: this is a vital injection of realism to an American strategic debate sorely in need of it.

The main lesson from this book is that the days of idealism are over, and realism is back, and with that, hard choices loom, not just for the US, but for all the European free-riders who relied on American hard power for the last seventy years. To quote a formidable grand-strategist, Gregory Peck, from The Guns of Navarone, their by-standing days, are over soon too.

The Critic