Publications

October 22, 2024

Allied Burden Sharing: The United States Shoulders an Unsustainable Weight [A Marathon Initiative Infographics Series]

The Marathon Initiative | America’s allies are heavily reliant on the United States for security. These dependencies belie the potential power of our partners – and America’s growing fiscal constraints........
October 18, 2024

Strategic Sequencing, Revisited

Internasjonalt Forum | Interview with Elbridge Colby: An exclusive interview that the head of the editorial committee, Ciwan Can, conducted with Elbridge Colby about how a possible victory for Donald Trump could affect the war in Ukraine and security in Europe. ........
September 24, 2024

Competition and Constraint: Toward a Balanced American Security Strategy

The Marathon Initiative | Washington cannot shrink from great-power competition where U.S. security is threatened, but nor can it form a strategy on the assumption that it possesses unlimited resources to compete, .......
September 17, 2024

How Biden Let Europe Slip Away

Wall Street Journal | On trade, defense and energy, Washington has failed to shore up the trans-Atlantic alliance.......
September 6, 2024

U.S. Strategy Should Be Europe First, Then Asia

Foreign Policy | Without a secure Europe, the United States risks becoming a hemispheric potentate on the margins of the world....
September 2, 2024

The U.S. and Taiwan Must Change Course

The Wall Street Journal | "Elbridge Colby responds on the defense of Taiwan from a Chinese invasion.".....
August 15, 2024

The Geopolitical Opportunity of Ukraine’s Kursk Offensive

Foreign Policy | Soil is the single most important leverage that Ukraine can amass, more valuable than sanctions relief or other economic incentives to Russia. ......
August 9, 2024

“Shadow Reserves”: China’s Key to Parry U.S. Financial Sanctions

War on the Rocks | Elbridge Colby discusses AUKUS and U.S. submarine power projection in the Pacific with The Sydney Morning Herald......
July 25, 2024

The Right Way to Quickly End the War in Ukraine

Foreign Affairs | To halt open-ended U.S. expenditures and preserve Ukraine’s independence and security, the United States and its allies need to give Kyiv one last serious chance at victory......
July 10, 2024

Only One Priority Makes Sense for American Foreign Policy

American Compass | "A strategy of prioritization flows directly from what I would describe as conservative realism. The core of conservatism is making the best of the world as it is: that’s why prudence is a core conservative virtue".........