Elbridge Colby Quoted in Bloomberg

“The clear lesson is: Don’t rely on indirect international pressure. You’ve got to be able to defeat the adversary’s ability to take and hold the key territory of your state,” says Elbridge Colby, a former Pentagon official who was the lead architect of the Trump administration’s 2018 National Defense Strategy.

To do so, Colby says, countries vulnerable to attack by Russia or China need to embrace “asymmetric defense,” ensuring that they possess “highly skilled, decentralized forces that are able to create a lot of trouble to the kind of heavier forces that are critical to conduct offensive, aggressive military operations.”

Bloomberg