ANSWERING THE THREAT OF A THIRD WAR BREAKING OUT: 5/8: The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, by Elbridge A. Colby @ElbridgeColby
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🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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https://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Denial-American-Defense-Conflict/dp/0300256434
Why and how America’s defense strategy must change in light of China’s power and ambition
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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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:11.7 | This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Bachelor. Elbridge Colby, his new book is The Strategy |
| 0:16.5 | of Denial, American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict. This is the future, based |
| 0:22.8 | upon pro-lock the past, about a contest between the Great Power United States of America. |
| 0:30.2 | And the Great Power, the People's Republic of China. We will also mention the Great Power |
| 0:35.1 | of the Russian Federation. We will look to the EU and NATO, but right now we're dealing |
| 0:39.8 | with a scenario that is not here, and we do not welcome it, but it's very likely possibility |
| 0:48.5 | of all the choices in an armed conflict, which is the People's Republic of China launching |
| 0:56.0 | an invasion against Taiwan, a fighter-complete invasion. An invasion such as was imagined |
| 1:04.7 | by Mao, I'm told before the Korean War, many of the soldiers that wound up counter-attacking |
| 1:11.4 | the American advance to the Yellow were scheduled to invade Taiwan is the story. We come now to |
| 1:19.0 | the 21st century, and we start with Denial Defense, which is the best choice for the US and its |
| 1:28.0 | coalition against China. We need definitions. Bridge, what is Denial Defense? How does it work? |
| 1:34.7 | A Denial Defense is basically the ability to deny China its ability to subordinate |
| 1:41.8 | one of the members of the anti-hegemonic coalition, and in this case Taiwan. So it's an ability to |
| 1:48.6 | keep Taiwan going on our side, and that's certainly against the punishment approach, which should be |
| 1:55.5 | easier, but also against that direct invasion. So the key to the fighter-complete is successfully |
| 2:00.5 | affecting the fighter-complete for the aggressor to seize and to hold the key territory really |
| 2:07.0 | of a targeted country. So if China decides to just seize and hold the two tiny offshore islands |
| 2:14.0 | that Taiwan holds right across off the Chinese mainland, that's not going to get Taiwan to give up. |
| 2:19.2 | Also, if China lands on Taiwan but gets ejected before it can establish its hold, that's not going |
| 2:25.0 | to work. Rather, China's got to seize Taiwan's Taipei, Kaosheng, the military bases, these kind of |
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