Elbridge Colby Archives

October 4, 2022

Panel: The Nixon Seminar – Elbridge Colby

Richard Nixon Foundation | The Nixon Seminar tours around the world, exploring emerging hotspots and opportunities that America should seize on as core elements of a long-term national foreign policy."......
October 1, 2022

Building a Strategy for Escalation and War Termination

The Marathon Initiative | This paper examines the necessity for the United States to formulate a theory of success in a conflict over Taiwan that includes denial but also indicates how to favorably manage escalation – that is, achieving its strategic-political goals without, at a minimum, precipitating a massive attack on the United States..…......
September 25, 2022

Elbridge Colby Interviewed on Sky News Australia

Sky News Australia | Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence Elbridge Colby says the “ship” of strategic ambiguity “has kind of sailed” after US President Joe Biden affirmed the US will defend Taiwan if China attacks......
September 19, 2022

Elbridge Colby Interviewed for First Things

First Things | Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Elbridge Colby to talk about his article “The Morality of a Strategy of Denial” from the October 2022 issue.....
September 18, 2022

Address: NatCon 3 Miami – Elbridge Colby

National Conservatism Conference | Elbridge Colby's address at the Miami National Conservatism Conference on September 11, 2022.....
September 15, 2022

Elbridge Colby Featured in Bloomberg

Bloomberg | In addition to the classified intelligence it will receive, the committee should be reading books like On China by Henry Kissinger; Destined for War: Can America and China Escape the Thucydides Trap by Graham Allison; China in Ten Words by Yu Hua; When China Rules the World: Second Edition by Martin Jacques;.......
September 15, 2022

Panel: Network 20/20 – Elbridge Colby

Network 20/20 | Join us for a conversation with Elbridge Colby, Co-founder and Principal of the Marathon Initiative; Author of The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense....
September 11, 2022

Elbridge Colby Featured in Responsible Statecraft

Responsible Statecraft | MIAMI — Where are national conservatives (mostly associated with the nationalist, populist movement) on China? There is no easy answer for that, though there seems to be a strong inclination towards Donald Trump’s approach before and during his presidency: don’t start any new wars, but if someone wants to start a fight, be ready to clobber them....
September 11, 2022

Elbridge Colby Interviewed on Intelligence Matters

CBS News Radio | NEW THIS WEEK: Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development....
September 10, 2022

Elbridge Colby Interviewed on BBC

BBC | Elbridge Colby on BBC....