Publications

June 20, 2019

Delivered Statement for the Record to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission | Hearing on “A ‘World-Class’ Military: Assessing China’s Global Military Ambitions"....
June 13, 2019

US Eyes Southeast Asia Ties to Check China’s Ambitions

New Straits Times | FOR the United States, competing with China must now be our national priority, as indicated in multiple US high-level documents. But the US is not competing...
May 15, 2019

How to win America’s Next War

Foreign Policy | The era of untrammeled U.S. military superiority is over. If the United States delays implementing a new approach, it risks losing a war to China or Russia—or backing...
May 4, 2019

US helps those who help themselves

Tapei Times | The threat to Taiwan from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is increasing — sharply. Beijing is putting the nation under tremendous political pressure, but the military threat to....
April 30, 2019

Germany needs to invest more in defense

Center for a New American Security | Few aspects of Germany's tense relationship with its own history are more delicate than the role and status of its military . Many Germans...
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....