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.
Illusions of U.S. Foreign Policy
by Jakub Grygiel
Built on the conviction that political order is engineered through a top-down process, Western foreign policy assumes that the state apparatus creates domestic order, while international institutions and rules build global order. Accordingly, what establishes a more efficient and lasting order is nothing more than the right application of power in its military, economic, or institutional forms.
Broadening the Base: A Blueprint for Expanding Defense Industrial Capacity
by Robert Almelor Delfeld, with contributions from Elbridge A. Colby
The reform package best adapted to generate the broadest possible corporate and state-based coalition is by focusing on strengthening what this report designates as the defense industrial “sub-base” (DISB).
China’s “New” Diplomacy: Opportunities for American Statecraft
by A. Wess Mitchell and Christopher Vassallo
The People’s Republic of China has embarked on an ambitious diplomatic campaign to increase its influence in strategically-vital regions and burnish its credentials as a great power of global reach.
No Sanctuary: The PLA’s Kinetic Threat to the Homeland
by William Kim and Elbridge A. Colby
Without adequate U.S. preparations, a large-scale—or even small but effectively targeted— PLA strike against the United States could be devastating, not only in terms of direct costs but on the ability of the United States to wage a war.
July 18, 2024
What is Keeping U.S. Up at Night: Transatlantic Priorities in Uncertain Times – Road to Election ’24
Munich Security Conference | "This MSC Road to Election event, taking place on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention, aims to bring together decision-makers and experts from both sides of the Atlantic to discuss key geopolitical challenges........
July 16, 2024
CNBC | "Elbridge Colby, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss what a Trump-Vance ticket would look like from a geopolitical standpoint, what an America-first foreign policy would entail under a second Trump administration, future of U.S.-China relations, and more."........
July 7, 2024
The Spectator | "On this episode of Americano, Colby tells host Freddy Gray why the US should – and likely will – reduce its support to Ukraine and Europe, to focus on the increasing threat China poses over Taiwan. Europe, he says, can pick up the slack on its own continent.......
June 17, 2024
Policy Exchange UK | Republican Visions for American Foreign and National Security Policy with Elbridge Colby Co-founder and principal of The Marathon Initiative, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development in conversation with Rt Hon Sir Michael Fallon KCB Former Secretary of State for Defence........