We believe that the primary task for our generation is to build a new American strategy attuned to the pressing realities of our time. This framework must be comprehensive of the major regions and dimensions of U.S. power and interests. It must also be willing to challenge established wisdom and inertia in U.S. national security policy and related fields.
Association of the United States Army LANPAC: Keynote Remarks
by Elbridge Colby
Indeed, our shared interest is defensive in the clearest sense. Our empowerment, our bolstering of your military efforts is focused on denial – a goal that is in the most basic sense defensive. No one can credibly say that Americans working to build up Asian states’ denial defense capabilities is doing something hostile or aggressive.
Strategic Sequencing: How Great Powers Avoid Multi-Front War
by A. Wess Mitchell
This paper examines how four great powers in history have handled simultaneity. Byzantium, Venice, Habsburg Austria, and the British Empire were all confronted, at important moments in their life cycles as empires, with the appearance of new threats both more powerful and different in kind than anything they had previously encountered.
Realizing the Contact & Blunt Layers in Europe and Asia
by Elbridge Colby and Jakub Grygiel (with Yashar Parsie)
The purpose of this study is to provide a strategic framework for how the United States, and the Department of Defense in particular, should think about and act toward its allies and partners in an era defined by great power competition. In effect, it is an attempt to sketch the outlines of what the Pentagon has termed a “Guidance for the Development of Allies and Partners.”
Economic Interdependence Will Not Deter U.S.-China War
by Christopher Vassallo
Economic ties linking the U.S. with China are insufficient to prevent a war. Interdependence does not prevent states from going to war; it does, paradoxically, compromise the ability to use economic statecraft. To restore the viability of economic statecraft, American policymakers must focus on making China more dependent on us than we on them.
May 27, 2022
Financial Times | Elbridge Colby worked in the Pentagon as deputy assistant secretary of defence, helping to write the influential 2018 National Defense Strategy, which shifted US strategy away from a focus on terrorism and towards a new era of great-power competition........
May 25, 2022
The Australian | Former Trump administration Pentagon official Elbridge Colby, an expert of Indo-Pacific affairs and co-founder of the Marathon Initiative, said he hoped Australia didn’t change its foreign policy stance under Labor........
May 24, 2022
Tucker Carlson Tonight | Elbridge Colby told 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' Biden should speak softly, and carry a big stick........
May 24, 2022
Washington Journal | Elbridge Colby and Mark Cancian talked about the U.S. role in supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression....
May 23, 2022
Breaking Pointsl | Krystal and Saagar talk with foreign policy analyst Elbridge Colby about the Biden administration's policies towards Taiwan that are in the spotlight after Biden called for the military to defend the island nation.....
May 21, 2022
Der Spiegel | In both countries, the development of their own nuclear weapons is being debated .......
May 19, 2022
Breaking Defense | [Camille Dawson, deputy assistant secretary at the State Department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs]’s fellow panelist Elbridge Colby, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development, was less sanguine........
May 18, 2022
Sea - Air - Space 2022 | Asia Pacific: A US Defense Strategy | Sea-Air-Space 2022......
May 18, 2022
The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show | Well, great to be with you, Clay and Buck. And, actually, I’m here in Hawaii on work; so don’t be too jealous, but it’s always a pleasure to be with you guys.......
May 17, 2022
Stars & Stripes | Elbridge Colby, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development from 2017 to 2018, was more specific about that adversary.....