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        2. Elbridge A. Colby is an American national security policy professional who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development from to during the Trump administration.
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        5. Colby is the author of many book chapters, reports, and articles on defense and foreign policy issues, and co-edited a volume on Strategic Stability.
        6. Elbridge Colby

          American bureaucrat

          Elbridge A. Colby (born December 30, 1979) 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.

          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.

          In June 2018, Colby was appointed as Director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).

          In 2019 he co-founded The Marathon Initiative with Wess Mitchell. In December 2024, President-elect Trump nominated Colby to serve as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.

          Education and early career

          Colby graduated from Harvard College in 2002, and from Yale Law School in 2009.[2][3] His early career included over five years of service with the Department of Defense, the Depar