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Why China's Growing Defense Budget Matters
So what does this tell us? Obviously nothing definitive, given that such an inherently indeterminate question as the nature and contours of China’s future behavior cannot be r...
By Elbridge Colby
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The Foreign Policy Essay: A Nuclear Asia?
For all the focus on maritime disputes in the South and East China Seas, there is an even greater peril in Asia that deserves attention: the rising salience of nuclear weapons...
By Elbridge Colby
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Ash Carter Has One Shot To Keep the Pentagon’s Technology Edge
If confirmed as defense secretary, Ashton Carter will need all his abundant experience to tackle the major challenges the Pentagon faces in trying to maintain America’s milita...
By Elbridge Colby & Shawn Brimley
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RHETORIC AND REALITY IN THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
You would not know from last night’s State of the Union that the world is an increasingly uncertain, unstable, and, yes, likely more dangerous place for the United States. In ...
By Elbridge Colby
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SOTU: Elbridge Colby on Nuclear Policy
The upcoming State of the Union offers an ideal opportunity for President Obama to underline the U.S. commitment to modernizing the nation’s nuclear arsenal. While the Preside...
By Elbridge Colby
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Asia Goes Nuclear: Elbridge Colby December 2014 Interview
Robert M. Gates Fellow Elbridge Colby discusses his op-ed on nuclear weapons in Asia with The National Interest....
By Elbridge Colby
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Welcome to China and America's Nuclear Nightmare
For all the focus on maritime disputes in the South and East China Seas, there is an even greater peril in Asia that deserves attention. It is the rising salience of nuclear w...
By Elbridge Colby
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America Musn’t Neglect Its Nukes
Earlier this month the Pentagon released a devastating assessment of its own management of the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The report, authored by two widely respected former fo...
By Elbridge Colby
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Smart Hawks
This point is becoming increasingly accepted in defense circles. Defense experts at places like Washington’s Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments have been sounding ...
By Elbridge Colby & Eric Sayers
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Time to govern
The midterm election handed control of Congress to the party whose traditional strength is national security. In developing its foreign policy agenda, the incoming Republican ...
By Elbridge Colby & Richard Fontaine
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Realism Returns
The most remarkable aspect of Senator Rand Paul’s “conservative realism” speech on October 23 in New York was that it was seen as remarkable at all. For the fact is that, desp...
By Elbridge Colby
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A Republican Congress Is Good News for Asia
Having attended summits in China and Burma, President Barack Obama heads to Australia this weekend for the G-20 summit, all while carrying the albatross of his party’s elector...
By Elbridge Colby & Richard Fontaine
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Transcript: CNAS Press Briefing: President Obama’s Upcoming Trip to Asia
On Monday, October 27, the Center for a New American Security held a press briefing for reporters to lay out the major issues President Obama will face during his upcoming tri...
By Elbridge Colby, Ely Ratner & Patrick M. Cronin
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Keeping America's Military Lead: A Front Opens in Congress
Along with many of us at CNAS, I have been seeking to draw attention to the growing challenges to U.S. military superiority and the consequent need for the country to focus mo...
By Elbridge Colby
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Sea-based nuclear-weapons: Military needs and political consequences
How will the deployment of ballistic missile submarines by China and India affect the Indo-Pacific strategic landscape? What effect will these deployments have on stability in...
By Elbridge Colby
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Our Unrealist President
Even before his presidency began, Barack Obama articulated a foreign-policy course markedly different from that of his immediate predecessors. Not only did he present himself ...
By Elbridge Colby
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Can US get beyond war and deterrence? Elbridge Colby says no.
At the 2014 U.S. Strategic Command Deterrence Symposium, Robert M. Gates Fellow Elbridge Colby presented during its second panel, "Mutually Assured Stability (MAS) vs. Mutuall...
By Elbridge Colby & JaRel Clay
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Have We Hit Peak America?
In other words, a greater number of Americans are worried about diminishing U.S. influence today than in the face of feared Soviet technological superiority in the late 1950s,...
By Elbridge Colby
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Challenges in U.S. National Security Policy (Chapter 10 by Elbridge Colby)
Robert M. Gates Fellow Elbridge Colby authors a chapter in Challenges in U.S. National Security Policy, a festschrift by the RAND Corporation honoring Edward L. (Ted) Warner....
By Elbridge Colby
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Video: America's International Leadership
John Bew of King's College London, Elbridge Colby of the Center for a New American Security, and Joshua Walker of the German Marshall Fund discuss America's international lead...
By Elbridge Colby