Publications

April 12, 2019

Rethinking Metternich, Standpoint Magazine

Standpoint Magazine | “The historian is not yet born,” the Austrian state chancellor Clemens Wenzel von Metternich complained in 1829, “who will describe the numerous events....
March 12, 2019

Take India’s Side, America

WSJ Opinion | The moment of maximum danger in the latest India-Pakistan conflict appears to have passed. But after a major attack by Pakistani militants on an Indian military base...
March 12, 2019

Is the Pentagon Truly Committed to the National Defense Strategy?

Defense One | As Senate and House committees examine the Trump administration’s proposed defense budget for fiscal 2020 — it totales three-quarters of a trillion dollars — the...
January 29, 2019

Testimony: Senate Armed Service Committee – Elbridge Colby

Senate Armed Services Committee | Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Reed, and distinguished members of this Committee, for the invitation to appear before you...
October 23, 2018

The INF Treaty hamstrings the U.S. Trump is right to leave it.

The Washington Post | The Trump administration has announced that it plans to withdraw from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty of 1987. This treaty banned the United States and Russia from....
October 15, 2018

If You Want Peace, Prepare for Nuclear War: A Strategy for the New Great-Power Rivalry

Foreign Affairs | In a little under three decades, nuclear weapons have gone from center stage to a sideshow in U.S. defense strategy. Since the 1990s, the United States.....
September 17, 2018

The Pentagon must modernize before it’s too late

The Washington Post | For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the Pentagon has a genuinely new strategy: Focus on our rivals — Russia and, in particular, China — and maintain a competitive advantage over them...
August 15, 2017

The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power

Princeton University Press | The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power. How America's vulnerable frontier allies—and American power—are being targeted by rival nations