Elbridge Colby
Principal, Marathon Initiative. Former Pentagon, 2018 National Defense Strategy, inter alia. Author of Strategy of Denial. Views my own.
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Strategies based on a quick, decisive, and easy victory in Ukraine are just not realistic. America and Europe need to eschew wishful thinking and grapple with the reality of what t...
βAs stockpiles dwindle, there is now widespread agreement among policymakers that America must rebuild its capacity to arm itself and its allies. But according to a new government...
Reality on the defense industrial base and its limits from @stavridisj: "The Russians have a competent industrial base, lots of raw materials, and can draw on conscript labor to...
I don't like the term "rules-based international order" on principle. But it is worth ditching on practical grounds. No one really can define what it means. And it doesn't resona...
βSomething has changed in Beijing that policymakers and business leaders worldwide cannot afford to ignore. If Xi says he is readying for war, it would be foolish not to take him a...
I keep coming back to the WWII revisionism debate because it strikes me as very revealing about the contemporary zeitgeist. WWII is central to everyone's self-conception. The ups...
This is a really important article from former Bush economics chair Glenn Hubbard that didn't get enough attention. It describes the *actual* quandary. We need to spend more on def...
U.S. shouldn't put its bets on China's demographics leading to near/medium-term decline. I'm not an economist but was exchanging notes with someone who is a very good one. Some k...
A Strategy Reading List Some Twitter friends asked for a strategy-related reading list. Here are some thoughts. I've focused on books that may be a bit off the beaten path. Clause...
I look at U.S. foreign policy like a fiduciary responsibility. It's supposed to work for the shareholders: the American people. It's an imperfect analogy, but I tend to see the int...
This speech from @HawleyMO on the threat from China to Taiwan and our interests at @Heritage is the kind of bracing, clear-eyed realism we need - and the American people deserve. @...
The US would do well not to heed @TheEconomist adviceπ. It stood for policies on China that have proved so disastrous. Those arguments erred in *two* critical ways: Not *only* th...