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The Wall Street Journal | In his rigorously argued and compelling book “The Strategy of Denial,” Elbridge Colby focuses on the military element of China’s ambitions....
The Heritage Foundation | For what purposes should the United States be prepared to fight, and how should U.S. forces be readied to fight such wars? As the Biden administration prepares the next National Defense Strategy these are vitally important questions......
Centre For Independent Studies | Hosted by Tom Switzer, with Elbridge Colby and Peter Varghese. The US alliance remains the centrepiece of Australian foreign policy....
The Washington Examiner | "Physical force, especially the ability to kill, is the ultimate form of coercive leverage. While there are other sources of influence, such as wealth, persuasiveness, and charisma, they are all dominated by the power to kill,” Elbridge A. Colby writes in The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict.....
VOA Chinese | Recently, Chinese naval ships sailed into the waters near Alaska in the United States. A few days ago, Japan said that Chinese destroyers and suspected submarines were found on the edge of its waters...
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Join us for a conversation on Elbridge A. Colby's new book The Strategy of Denial which offers a detailed examination of how America's defense strategy must change in order to checkmate China's growing power and ambition and deter war....
The New York Times | But China’s aggressive tactics in the Pacific and America’s desire to ensure security for Taiwan required the United States to empower Australia, even...
Council on Foreign Relations | Elbridge A. Colby, cofounder and principal of the Marathon Initiative, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss whether and how the United States should revise its defense strategy to face its current challenges...
Diplomatic Courier | Binary either-or strategy considerations about whether China is a threat or not don't go far enough and reflect a lack of doctrinal framework. ...
The National Interest | In a decade or so, we’ll have all the answers. Either this will be recognized as the latest age of the great American strategists following in the footsteps of Alfred Thayer Mahan and George Kennan—or we will all be speaking Chinese and bowing to the West...