Elbridge Colby

ELBRIDGE COLBY is a Principal at the Marathon Initiative. He served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development from 2017 to 2018.

Elbridge's recent articles

The Ideology Delusion: Americas Competition With China Is Not About Doctrine (Foreign Affairs Sep 4, 2020)

Early in the Cold War, the United States faced a similar crossroads. Some figures, such as President Dwight Eisenhower, took a tough line on the Soviet Union but counseled the need to be selective in confrontations, steering US foreign policy toward selectivity and what he called the middle way.

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