Elbridge Colby Quoted in Nikkei Asia

The administration of former President Donald Trump made a clear tilt toward the “denial” camp. One of the chief advocates for that shift was Elbridge Colby, the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development and the principal author of Trump’s 2018 National Defense Strategy. “We were trying to move to a deterrence by denial model, whose basic logic is that you’re best off if you can convince the other side that they’re going to fail, not that you’re going to punish them so much they’ll disgorge whatever they gain,” Colby told Nikkei Asia.

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