ANSWERING THE THREAT OF A THIRD WAR BREAKING OUT: 7/8: 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
⏱️ 12 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 in the World, I'm John Bachelors, Elbridge Colby, the author of The Strategy |
| 0:09.7 | of Denial. |
| 0:11.1 | This is imagining the future and a contest between the coalition led by the United States |
| 0:18.2 | against the Hegemon, China and China's aggression towards Taiwan and or the Philippines and |
| 0:25.5 | or the rest of the coalition. |
| 0:28.1 | There is now a disaster scenario and the denial defense obliges everyone to react in |
| 0:35.9 | dire fashion. |
| 0:37.8 | What is it that can keep the denial defense from failing or what is a predicate for the |
| 0:44.1 | coalition after the failure or during the contest in which either side could win or lose? |
| 0:50.4 | I believe that's what we can now talk about as the binding strategy. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm very carefully reading Fun Closivites because of you, Bridge. |
| 1:00.0 | And I find thanks to your emphasis, Fun Closivites talked a lot about psychology and about |
| 1:07.2 | the resolve, the morale, the ambition, the passion of the contestants. |
| 1:15.5 | I believe that's part of the binding strategy. |
| 1:18.2 | How so? |
| 1:19.2 | No, I think you put your finger on it, John. |
| 1:22.2 | The issue that Closivites of course was a master of is that the strength itself is not |
| 1:29.3 | the only factor that's relevant here. |
| 1:33.0 | The question is how much and how avidly are the combatants prepared to dedicate that |
| 1:38.5 | amount of strength, right? |
| 1:40.2 | The France under the Bourbon in 1785 or something, the fervor of the French nation was much |
| 1:47.8 | more modest, right? |
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