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.
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.
Getting Strategic Deprioritization Right
by A. Wess Mitchell and Jakub Grygiel, Principal Co-Investigators; Elbridge A. Colby and Matt Pottinger, Contributors
Project prepared for the Office of Net Assessment, United States Department of Defense. Published with approval from the Office of Net Assessment.
February 12, 2024
Foreign Policy | While the debate rages about how to handle what’s happening in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, it may be worth pausing to consider the situation from a historical perspective......
February 6, 2024
AM 560: Chicago's Morning Answer | Elbridge Colby, co-founder and principal of The Marathon Iniatitive & served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development from 2017-2018:...........
February 5, 2024
The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show | Elbridge Colby, co-founder of The Marathon Initiative and former U.S. Assistant Deputy Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development, joined Clay and Buck to take stock of all the world's hotspots............
February 2, 2024
The Australian | Former US deputy assistant secretary of defence Elbridge Colby says America needs a “combination” of a “forceful” response to the drone attack in Jordan.........
January 31, 2024
UnHerd | UnHerd's Freddie Sayers talks with Aris Roussinos, Elbridge Colby and Pippa Malmgren, about the possibility of World War III. Will 2024 be the year of a Third World War?...........
January 29, 2024
Strategy & Future | Jacek Bartosiak talks to Elbridge Colby about the failure of US primacy, world war, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons............
January 25, 2024
Chatham House | Europeans are keen to understand the strategic debate in America about where US foreign policy is likely to head in the future. Elbridge Colby, former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development, discusses what US foreign policy should seek to achieve and what it should focus on..........
January 24, 2024
The Heritage Foundation | Join us as Sen. Roger Wicker, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, noted grand strategist Elbridge Colby, and former Green Beret Joe Kent discuss how we can reverse a decade of decline and restore America’s military power........
January 23, 2024
The Morgan Ortagus Show | “Why should Americans care about the future of Taiwan? Elbridge Colby dived into why supporting democracy in the Indo-Pacific is crucial to American national security on ‘The Morgan Ortagus Show’. Catch our full interview on the Sirius XM app!”...........
January 20, 2024
VOA Korea | American experts have pointed out that if war breaks out in the Taiwan Strait and the United States intervenes, Korea will have to defend itself. The explanation is that even if China instigates North Korea to attack South Korea, the US military's core forces will prioritize dealing with China, not the North Korean threat.