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July 25, 2022

Elbridge Colby Interviewed on Hidden Forces

Hidden Forces | In Episode 261 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Elbridge Colby, co-founder and principal of The Marathon Initiative, an organization whose mission is to develop the diplomatic, military, and economic strategies that the United States will need to navigate a protracted era of great power competition.......
July 23, 2022

Elbridge Colby Quoted In Nikkei Asia

Nikkei Asia | Elbridge Colby, a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development, said that the situation over Taiwan is becoming increasingly dangerous and that Washington needs to be careful of the messages it sends......
July 14, 2022

Elbridge Colby Interviewed for Foreign Policy Research Institute

Foreign Policy Research Institute | In a 2007 article for Orbis, Elbridge Colby argued, "deterrence is a security policy offering a way forward for the United States that is not only more effective because it is more tailored, but is also more moral than its alternatives."...
July 14, 2022

Elbridge Colby Interviewed on Ben Fordham Live

Ben Fordham Live (2 GB - 873 AM) | Former Defence Official at the Pentagon Bridge Colby says there has not been “enough focus” on the Western Pacific....
July 12, 2022

Elbridge Colby Featured in Discourse Magazine

Discourse Magazine | In many minds, the U.S. should be thinking very specifically about how to counter China because China is equipping and girding itself specifically to defeat the U.S. and any coalition it might assemble....
July 8, 2022

Elbridge Colby Quoted in The Washington Post

The Washington Post | Elbridge Colby, a former national security official in the Trump administration, has warned for months against the United States overextending itself in Ukraine, while sleeping on the potential threat China may pose to Taiwan....
July 1, 2022

China, Not Russia, Still Poses the Greatest Challenge to U.S. Security

The National Interest | Nothing that has happened since Russia’s abominable invasion of Ukraine has changed a set of facts: Asia is the world’s largest market area, and it is growing in global share.....
June 28, 2022

Elbridge Colby Quoted in The Japan Times

The Japan Times | Still, there is a limit to the appeal of public goods There is a real difference between “new friends” and making hard choices that risk doing real damage to national security. Countries will take what they’re offered but are likely to remain on the fence in a conflict. .....
June 22, 2022

Elbridge Colby Quoted in Nikkei Asia

Nikkei Asia | Recent arguments for countering China through "denial" have been spearheaded by Elbridge Colby, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force planning and the lead architect of the Trump administration's 2018.....
June 21, 2022

Keynote: Fraktion der Freien Demokraten – Elbridge Colby

Fraktion der Freien Demokraten | Keynote: Elbridge A. Colby, Mitbegründer und Leiter der Marathon-Initiative....