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Foreign Policy Live

Inside Trump’s Defense Policy (Re-Air)

Foreign Policy Live

Foreign Policy

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.1622 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

National security analyst and former Trump administration official Elbridge Colby joined FP Live earlier this year to share his take on what a second Trump term could mean for foreign policy. He was recently tapped to be the under secretary of defense for policy in the incoming administration. As such, he will be an integral part of Trump’s decision-making—making this episode newly relevant.  Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free): Transcript: Decoding Trump’s Foreign Policy Elbridge Colby, Mackenzie Eaglen, and Roger Zakheim: How to Trim the Defense Budget Without Harming U.S. Security (2020) Elbridge Colby and David Ochmanek: How the United States Could Lose a Great-Power War (2019) Elbridge Colby: How to Win America’s Next War (2019) FP Staff: The Trump Transition Begins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is FP Live.

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Hey, I hope you enjoyed our last episode looking back at 2024 with Farid Zakaria, the CNN

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host and global affairs commentator.

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Our next episode is going to be with Farreith again, looking ahead to 2025.

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In the meantime, I thought I'd bring you an older episode that has become newly relevant.

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Back in July, we spoke with Elbridge Colby, who served in the last Trump administration and helped write its national security strategy.

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As we said at the time, Colby is influential in Trump's orbit and was expected to get a key role in a potential

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Trump 2.0 administration.

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