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.
Illusions of U.S. Foreign Policy
by Jakub Grygiel
Built on the conviction that political order is engineered through a top-down process, Western foreign policy assumes that the state apparatus creates domestic order, while international institutions and rules build global order. Accordingly, what establishes a more efficient and lasting order is nothing more than the right application of power in its military, economic, or institutional forms.
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.
January 14, 2024
Lead-Lag Live Podcastast | Elbridge Colby, the architect of the 2018 National Defense Strategy and author of "The Strategy of Denial," joins us to untangle the complex web of China's rise and its implications for global power dynamics...........
January 12, 2024
CNBC | Elbridge Colby, former Pentagon official in the Trump administration and ‘The Strategy of Denial’ author, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the U.S.-led coalition strikes against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in....
January 12, 2024
Renaissance Macro Research | Former Pentagon official and defense strategy author Elbridge Colby joins RenMac to discuss The Impact of Taiwan's upcoming Presidential Elections. ..........
January 12, 2024
Foreign Policy | Viewed from Washington, there’s currently one big war going on in Ukraine, another war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza that could get bigger, and one war that hasn’t started yet but that would dwarf all the others should it come to pass: a war between the United States and China....
January 8, 2024
Semafor | Over the past six months, a widening shake-up of China’s defense establishment has raised questions about leader Xi Jinping’s ability to root out corruption in the armed forces and modernize the country’s military. ...
January 8, 2024
Intercollegiate Studies Institute | Elbridge Colby, a strategic thinker and national security expert, engages in a thought-provoking conversation on the intersection of economics and global security. ...........
January 2, 2024
Hindustan Times Podcast | In the latest episode of HT Podcast, Elbridge Colby - Former Deputy Assistant Defence Secretary, USA & Co-founder & Principal, Marathon Initiative - argues that the U.S. should not seek to be the leader of the world and abandon policies that it does not have the resources to back up...........
January 2, 2024
The Australian | “Ex-Pentagon official Elbridge Colby and former Republican Senate security adviser Alex Velez-Green have warned that the superpower’s own navy has too few spare boats to sell to Australia unless production greatly speeds up...
January 2, 2024
ABC (Australia) | Elbridge Colby has questioned a plan to send nuclear-powered submarines to Australia and the US Navy's fleet capacity to spare warships.
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January 1, 2024
The Australian | “Just weeks after the US congress passed laws allowing President Joe Biden to sell Virginia-class boats to its AUKUS ally in Canberra, ex-Pentagon official Elbridge Colby and former republican Senate security adviser Alex Velez-Green say the superpower’s own navy has too few boats spare to sell to Australia unless production greatly speeds up”.....