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La Monde | For Elbridge Colby, former Deputy Under-Secretary of Defense (2017-2018), “a real defeat for Russia would leave Beijing quite isolated internationally”. Author of the book The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict (Yale University Press, 2021, untranslated), Elbridge Colby explains to Le Monde that, in his opinion, "the Chinese will support their Russian ally but will try to avoid paying an excessive price........
Limes | Former assistant secretary of state Wess Mitchell sits down with Italian geopolitical magazine, Limes...........
Ricochet | We jet eastward and then into the ether this week, unfortunately without our pal James Lileks who’s vacationing somewhere on planet Earth. Our first guide is Elbridge Colby, who explains why we better not sleep on the Pacific theater............
Japan Times | Elbridge Colby, who helped write the Pentagon’s 2018 National Defense Strategy as deputy assistant defense secretary for strategy and force development, said the German move would also heap external pressure on Japan to spend more...........
Channel 4 News | After his meeting with fellow Western foreign ministers today in Brussels, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that President Putin could open a “Pandora’s box of trouble” for the entire world, adding that Nato did not seek conflict, but “if conflict comes to us, we are ready for it”..........
U.S. Naval Institute | Author Bridge Colby discusses the subject of his book "The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict." This content is made possible by the members of the U.S. Naval Institute. For additional details about the Naval Institute, visit: https://www.usni.org/join..........
The Washington Post | Wouldn’t Russia be deterred from crossing that line in Europe by the prospect of mutually assured destruction? Maybe, but the notion that Washington would escalate to strategic nuclear weapons in the absence of an imminent threat to the homeland “is just too extreme to be convincing and therefore unlikely to work” as a deterrent, conservative strategist Elbridge Colby wrote in Foreign Affairs in 2018.........
Echo24 | nder Donald Trump, Wess Mitchell was the top official in Europe at the State Department. Today, he works in a think-tank that profiles itself on the turn to Asia. But now war has broken out in Europe in the terrain he knows........
The New Diplomatist | In this episode, Garrison was joined by Elbridge Colby, author of The Strategy of Denial and key architect of the 2018 U.S. National Defense Strategy..........
Intercollegiate Studies Institute | Elbridge Colby, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development at the Department of Defense, discusses foreign policy fault lines on the right, America’s biggest adversaries today, and his thoughts on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.........