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
Strategic Sequencing: How Great Powers Avoid Multi-Front War
by A. Wess Mitchell
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.
Washington Journal | Elbridge Colby and Mark Cancian talked about the U.S. role in supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression....