Articles and Media

October 7, 2022

Can America Contain the Chinese Communist Party—or Is It Too Late?

Over the Target with Lee Smith | Since the 1970s, U.S. political and corporate elites have fueled Beijing’s rise as a military and economic superpower. ...
October 7, 2022

Elbridge Colby Quoted in Bloomberg

Bloomberg | “We can’t allow such a valuable equity to fall into Chinese hands, I think it would be nuts,” said Elbridge Colby, a former Pentagon official who helped write the Trump administration’s national defense strategy."......
October 6, 2022

Elbridge Colby Interviewed by The Spectator

The Spectator | Freddy Gray, The Spectator’s deputy editor, speaks to former Pentagon official, and the author of The Strategy of Denial, Elbridge Colby about the risk of nuclear war with Russia: ‘I’m very suspicious of the ability to control the escalation.’ – Elbridge Colby"......
October 4, 2022

Elbridge Colby Quoted in Nikkei Asia

Nikkei Asia | Elbridge Colby, one of the respondents and author of "The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict," told Nikkei Asia that "Beijing will be willing to permanently accept the status quo if the alternative is humiliating failure."......
October 4, 2022

Panel: The Nixon Seminar – Elbridge Colby

Richard Nixon Foundation | The Nixon Seminar tours around the world, exploring emerging hotspots and opportunities that America should seize on as core elements of a long-term national foreign policy."......
October 1, 2022

Building a Strategy for Escalation and War Termination

The Marathon Initiative | This paper examines the necessity for the United States to formulate a theory of success in a conflict over Taiwan that includes denial but also indicates how to favorably manage escalation – that is, achieving its strategic-political goals without, at a minimum, precipitating a massive attack on the United States..…......
September 25, 2022

Elbridge Colby Interviewed on Sky News Australia

Sky News Australia | Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence Elbridge Colby says the “ship” of strategic ambiguity “has kind of sailed” after US President Joe Biden affirmed the US will defend Taiwan if China attacks......
September 22, 2022

Classics and Strategy

The Marathon Initiative | Classic texts – whether by Roman historians such as Tacitus or Greek tragedians such as Aeschylus or Florentine diplomats such as Francesco Guicciardini – give us important, and even unusual, insights into strategy........
September 19, 2022

Elbridge Colby Interviewed for First Things

First Things | Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Elbridge Colby to talk about his article “The Morality of a Strategy of Denial” from the October 2022 issue.....
September 18, 2022

Address: NatCon 3 Miami – Elbridge Colby

National Conservatism Conference | Elbridge Colby's address at the Miami National Conservatism Conference on September 11, 2022.....