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December 12, 2019

Elbridge Colby Quoted in The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal | The American military has long eyed the development of mid-range ballistic missiles with no nuclear warheads as a way to counter China.....
December 12, 2019

The Middle East in an Era of Great Power Competition, Hoover Institute

Hoover Institution | In 1920, a young Winston Churchill wrote a memorandum to the Cabinet outlining his concerns about British policy in the Middle East...
December 7, 2019

Panel: Reagan National Defense Forum – Elbridge Colby

Reagan National Defense Forum | Panel 3, “Defense Transformation or Evolution”?...
December 5, 2019

A Republican Foreign Policy

National Review | The United States needs a new framework for thinking about its role in the world. And this need is especially pressing for American conservatives. We are...
November 12, 2019

Elbridge Colby Interviewed by the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT)

American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) | Elbridge A. Colby, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development visited Taiwan last month.? He talked...
October 29, 2019

How the United States Could Lose a Great Power War

Foreign Policy | The U.S. armed forces are now preparing for an age of great-power competition and rightly so. The 2018 National Defense Strategy shows the Defense Department is focused on the threats posed...
October 1, 2019

The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire

Princeton University Press | The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical world...
September 24, 2019

Don’t Let Iran Distract From China

WSJ Opinion | The Trump administration is right to respond cautiously to last week’s Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia. As the U.S. protects its interests in the Middle East, it must...
September 17, 2019

Panel: Air, Space, and Cyber Conference – Elbridge Colby

U.S. Department of Defense | The Threat and the Strategy, 2019 Air Space & Cyber ConferenceVice Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen....
July 1, 2019

The Return of Strategic Competition: How to Execute and Sustain the National Security Strategy

Ronald Regan Presidential Foundation & Institute | The world is entering a renewed period of major power competition. This is essentially a function of the more-equal power...