Publications

October 17, 2023

Why Putin’s visit to China is a joint show of defiance towards US-led West

South China Morning Post | “[There is] a massive mismatch between strategy and resources,” Elbridge Colby, a China hawk and former deputy assistant secretary of defence under Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump, commented..........
October 11, 2023

The gathering storm

Washington Examiner | “The threat from China has not dissipated in the slightest while our defense spending and industry remain basically status quo as threats multiply,” former Pentagon official Elbridge Colby wrote........
September 18, 2023

World Events Are Not Going America’s Way

The Spectator | There is a foreign policy strategy to manage this much more dangerous era, one proceeding from a sober-minded focus on our core national interests and prioritizing dealing with our prime great power rival, China......
September 14, 2023

Delfeld: The Military Strategy of ‘Deterrence by Denial,’ Rightly Understood

National Review | Strictly speaking, a strategy of deterrence by denial is about preventing a war in the Pacific, particularly over Taiwan, by first achieving a favorable balance of allied military power that will enable conditions for détente.......
August 1, 2023

Two Fronts, One Goal: Euro-Atlantic Security in the Indo-Pacific Age

The Marathon Initiative | This paper outlines how Europe can contribute to alleviating the “two-front” predicament in U.S. global strategy. It shows how Europeans can help free up the United States’ strategic bandwidth in Europe so as to enable a proper U.S. prioritization of China without weakening Europe’s deterrence architecture.…......
July 14, 2023

How We Can Help Ukraine While Genuinely Prioritizing Asia

TIME | “We can hope that there will soon be a just and durable end to this conflict, but predicating our strategy on such a hope would be imprudent. Rather, we must assume that Russia will remain a threat to Ukraine and NATO for the foreseeable future.......
July 6, 2023

NATO’s Next Decade: Nine thinkers assess the alliance’s future ahead of a historic summit.

Foreign Policy | "NATO’s 2022 Strategic Concept took an important first step by recognizing China as a security challenge, but now the alliance needs to translate that into concrete actions.......
July 5, 2023

Western Europe Is Still Falling Short in NATO’s East

Foreign Affairs | Although the war has done a lot to get western Europe serious about defense, NATO remains bound by many of the same old self-created constraints......
July 4, 2023

The Threat of A US-China War Requires A US-Israel Reset

The Times of Israel | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to visit China later this year have drawn criticism from a number of quarters, but whether close allies are in favor of Israel visiting Beijing is the wrong lens for viewing US alliances in this renewed era of superpower rivalry......
June 23, 2023

Getting Strategic Deprioritization Right

The Marathon Initiative | Project prepared for the Office of Net Assessment, United States Department of Defense. Published with approval from the Office of Net Assessment.…......