8/8: How to prepare for a 2023 Kremlin attack on #NATO: 8/8: The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, by Elbridge A. Colby @ElbridgeColby.
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🗓️ 8 January 2023
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8/8: How to prepare for a 2023 Kremlin attack on #NATO: 8/8: 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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| 0:35.0 | This is CBS Islanderworld. I'm John Batshire with Elbiccobie, the author of the Strategy |
| 0:39.1 | of Denial American Defense in the Age of Great Power Conflict. The aim of strength is peace, |
| 0:45.0 | however, right now a coalition can be formed in the event of an attack on Taiwan. However, |
| 0:53.9 | NATO is a part of this equation. It doesn't geographically touch upon any of it, but we see |
| 0:59.6 | now with Aakus, a senior United Kingdom and the United States as part of a coalition in |
| 1:06.4 | the Indo-Pacific dealing with China. Is NATO to get involved? Is that a factor for China? |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, it's a factor. I don't think Europe is going to play a particularly significant role |
| 1:17.8 | directly in the military balance and the Pacific. What I think the main role, you know, Europe |
| 1:22.8 | is the secondary theater for us. It's very important, but it's distinctly less important |
| 1:27.5 | than Asia. Furthermore, the chance of another state becoming hegemonic in that region is |
| 1:36.2 | far less. China is half of Asia's GDP, so it stands a very plausible chance of establishing |
| 1:42.9 | a dominant position in the region. Russia has a much smaller fraction. It's not even a |
| 1:47.1 | larger state in the region. Germany is by GDP. The threat is less significant, although |
| 1:53.4 | significant, and the threat is much more limited than so. We need to focus on Asia because |
| 1:58.6 | we're dealing with the threat. That's really got to be our focus. We are going to have to |
| 2:02.9 | reduce our exposure. I think we should remain in NATO, but I think the key will be to |
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