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The Strategy of Denial

Wed, September 15th, 2021

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Asia

The Asia Program in Washington studies disruptive security, governance, and technological risks that threaten peace, growth, and opportunity in the Asia-Pacific region, including a focus on China, Japan, and the Korean peninsula.

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South Asia

The South Asia Program informs policy debates relating to the region’s security, economy, and political development. From strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific to India’s internal dynamics and U.S. engagement with the region, the program offers in-depth, rigorous research and analysis on South Asia’s most critical challenges.

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Join us for a conversation on Elbridge A. Colby's new book The Strategy of Denial which offers a detailed examination of how America's defense strategy must change in order to checkmate China's growing power and ambition and deter war.

Ashley J. Tellis will host the conversation and is joined by panelists Jennifer Lind and Christian Brose to discuss with Elbridge A. Colby how to address the rising threat China poses to the United States.

South AsiaIndiaEast AsiaSouth KoreaChinaJapanPolitical ReformSecurityMilitaryForeign PolicyGlobal Governance

Event Speakers

Elbridge A. A. Colby

Elbridge A. Colby is co-founder and principal of The Marathon Initiative, a policy initiative focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition. Colby served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development from 2017-2018. In that role, he served as the lead official in the development and rollout of the Department’s preeminent strategic planning guidance, the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS).

Elbridge A. A. Colby
Christian Brose
Former Senior Fellow
Christian Brose
Jennifer Lind

Jennifer Lind is an associate professor in the government department at Dartmouth College, a research associate at Chatham House, London, and a faculty associate at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies at Harvard University. Professor Lind has previously worked as a consultant for RAND and for the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense. Her research focuses on the security relations of East Asia and U.S. foreign policy toward the region. She is the author of Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics (Cornell, 2008).

Jennifer Lind
Ashley J. Tellis
Former Senior Fellow

Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views represented herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its trustees.

Event Speakers

Elbridge A. A. Colby

Elbridge A. Colby is co-founder and principal of The Marathon Initiative, a policy initiative focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition. Colby served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development from 2017-2018. In that role, he served as the lead official in the development and rollout of the Department’s preeminent strategic planning guidance, the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS).

Christian Brose

Former Senior Fellow

Christian Brose was a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and head of strategy at Anduril Industries.

Jennifer Lind

Jennifer Lind is an associate professor in the government department at Dartmouth College, a research associate at Chatham House, London, and a faculty associate at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies at Harvard University. Professor Lind has previously worked as a consultant for RAND and for the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense. Her research focuses on the security relations of East Asia and U.S. foreign policy toward the region. She is the author of Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics (Cornell, 2008).

Ashley J. Tellis

Former Senior Fellow

Ashley J. Tellis was a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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