Elbridge Colby Archives

March 21, 2023

The Correct Conservative Approach to Ukraine Shifts the Focus to China

TIME | The war in Ukraine has now entered its second year—but President Joe Biden has yet to articulate a credible strategy.......
March 19, 2023

Former Pentagon Advisor: US will drop Europe and focus on Asia

Berliner Zeitung | Elbridge Colby: Nothing has changed in our fundamental interests: No power is still allowed to achieve hegemony over important regions......
March 17, 2023

AUKUS deal ‘more heat than light’ for the US at the moment

Sky News Australia | Former US deputy assistant secretary of defence Elbridge Colby says the AKUS deal for the US is “more heat than light” as the American system is not designed to work with aligns in creating technology and ammunition.....
March 16, 2023

In Iraq, Foreseeable Costs Outweighed Likely Benefits

National Review | The Iraq War was a great, historic error. Stating this bluntly is not a mere matter of antiquarian interest or settling scores....
March 15, 2023

The World That We Will Live and Die In

The American Conservative | “I think the questions Vance is posing and the impetus he presents are the kind the country needs,” Elbridge A. Colby told me over a Zoom call....
March 15, 2023

A Republican ‘civil war’ on Ukraine erupts as Reagan’s example fades

The Washington Post | Kagan, the Brookings fellow, called Hawley’s vision “crazy” for proposing to abandon European allies in the middle of a conflict.....
March 15, 2023

Bill Kristol Has No Business Making Demands of NR

National Review | Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and lead author of the Trump administration’s 2018 National Defense Strategy Report, Elbridge Colby (Elbridge Colby) said in an interview with Voice of America that the U.S. and China are currently in a “zero-sum situation.....
March 14, 2023

Li Qiang said that “China and the United States can cooperate.” American experts pointed out that the prospects are low and “unrealistic”, calling on the Biden administration to give up

VOA | Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and lead author of the Trump administration’s 2018 National Defense Strategy Report, Elbridge Colby (Elbridge Colby) said in an interview with Voice of America that the U.S. and China are currently in a “zero-sum situation.....
March 14, 2023

Elbridge Colby and Lyle Goldstein on China’s Military Capabilities

C-SPAN | Elbridge Colby and Lyle Goldstein talked about China’s military capabilities....
March 11, 2023

The real and acute threat of a Sino-US conflict over Taiwan

Hindustan Times | India should worry a great deal about a Sino-United States (US) war over Taiwan. To be fair, why it should is not necessarily obvious. After all, the Western Pacific is far from India.......