Elbridge Colby | |
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| Political party | Republican |
| Relatives | William Colby (grandfather) |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) Yale University (JD) |
Elbridge A. Colby (born 1979/80) is an American national security policy professional who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development from 2017 to 2018 during the Trump administration.[1] He played a key role in the development of the 2018 U.S. National Defense Strategy, which, among other things, shifted the U.S. Defense Department's focus to challenges posed by China's rise.[2]
In June 2018, Colby was appointed as Director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).[3] In 2019 he co-founded The Marathon Initiative with Wess Mitchell.
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