7/8: How to prepare for a 2023 Kremlin attack on #NATO: 7/8: The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, by Elbridge A. Colby @ElbridgeColby.

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7/8: How to prepare for a 2023 Kremlin attack on #NATO: 7/8: The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, by Elbridge A. Colby @ElbridgeColby.

https://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Denial-American-Defense-Conflict/dp/0300256434

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.

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1:26.4	There is now a disaster scenario and the denial defense obliges everyone to react in
1:36.0	dire fashion. What is it that can keep the denial defense from failing or what is a
1:41.9	predicate for the coalition after the failure or during the contest in which either side
1:48.9	could win or lose? I believe that's what we can now talk about as the binding strategy.
1:55.6	I'm very carefully reading fun closivets because of you, bridge. And I find thanks to your
2:01.8	emphasis, fun closivets talked a lot about psychology and about the resolve, the morale,
2:10.6	the ambition, the passion of the contestants. I believe that's part of the binding strategy.
2:18.2	How so?
2:19.2	No, I think you put your finger on it, John. The issue that caused was a master of is that
2:27.8	the strength itself is not the only factor that's relevant here. The question is how much
2:35.0	and how avidly are the combatants prepared to dedicate that amount of strength?
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