About Elbridge A. Colby
Elbridge A. Colby served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development, in which capacity he was responsible for defense strategy, force development, and strategic analysis for OSD Policy.
Where to find Elbridge A. Colby
The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
Elbridge A. Colby was the lead architect of the 2018 National Defense Strategy, the most significant revision of U.S. defense strategy in a generation. Here he lays out how America’s defense must change to address China’s growing power and ambition. Based firmly in the realist tradition but deeply engaged in current policy, this book offers a clear framework for what America’s goals in confronting China must be, how its military strategy must change, and how it must prioritize these goals over its lesser interests.
The most informed and in-depth reappraisal of America’s defense strategy in decades, this book outlines a rigorous but practical approach, showing how the United States can prepare to win a war with China that we cannot afford to lose—precisely in order to deter that war from happening.
The U.S. has no moral standing to stand against China
(Comments by Alain Guillot)
Mr. Colby tries to deter China from expanding its power. But does the U.S. has the moral standing to defend Taiwan against China’s hegemony and power grab? Here are some examples of the U.S. own colonialism, power grab, and hegemony.
The United States:
- Assessinated millions of Native Americans. the U.S. government authorize over 1,500 wars, attacks and raids on Indians, the most of any country in the world against its Indigenous people. By the close of the Indian Wars in the late 19th century, fewer than 238,000 Indigenous people remained, a sharp decline from the estimated 5 million to 15 million living in North America when Columbus arrived in 1492.
- Invaded Canada in 1812
- Stole land from Mexico (territory now included in the states of New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas, and western Colorado) 1846.
- Only ended slavery throgh a Civil War (1865) and still holds many of its black citizens in prison, it adition is constantly trying to defranchise black and brown voters.
- Orchastrated the assassinations: Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in 1961.
- Sponsored the assassination General Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic in 1961.
- Contributed with the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam, in 1963.
- Financed the assasination of Salvador Allende, president of Chile, in 1973 to put military dictator Agusto Pinochet in power.
- Invaded Grenada (1983).
- Invaded Panama (1989).
- Invaded Iraq under the fictitious information that Iraq had weapons of mass destructions, and killed millions of Iraquis.
- Sponsored the regime changes in: Iran, Guatemala, Congo, Syria, Dominican Republic, South Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina.
- Trained or supported secret police forces everywhere from Cambodia to Colombia, the Philippines to Peru, Iran to Vietnam.
- Has 119 military base sites in Germany; 119 in Japan; 73 in South Korea; 44 in Italy.
- Has military bases in Aruba, Bahrain, Cuba, Djibouti, Estonia, Greece, Honduras, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Marshall Islands, Norway, Oman, Philippines, Qatar, Romania, Spain, Tunisia, UK, US Virgins, Wake Island.