Bridge Colby, Ely Ratner, and Damon Wilson testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 29, 2019, to examine the implementation of the National Defense Strategy, and the threats posed by China and Russia. Download the written testimony or watch the full hearing here: Full Hearing
Foreign Affairs | November/December 2018 In a little under three decades, nuclear weapons have gone from center stage to a sideshow in U.S. defense strategy. Since the 1990s, the United States has drastically reduced its stockpile and concentrated on its conventional and irregular warfare capabilities. Nuclear weapons policy has focused overwhelmingly on stemming proliferation to countries such as Iran and North Korea, and prominent political and national security figures have even called for abolishing nuclear weapons altogether. What was once the [...]
September 17, 2018 | Opinion For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the Pentagon has a genuinely new strategy: Focus on our rivals — Russia and, in particular, China — and maintain a competitive advantage over them. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis warns in his 2018 National Defense Strategy that if we fail to do so, we may lose the next big war against these nations. If that happens, say goodbye to the free and open international order [...]