A draft of the latest National Defense Strategy (NDS) was leaked to Politico. If implemented, the plan proposes to pivot away from China and prioritize protecting the homeland and the Western Hemisphere. The speed of this proposed change is astonishing and its impact enormously consequential.

It’s also confounding as its author is none other than Elbridge Colby, the current Deputy Secretary of War. It was Colby who co-wrote the 2018 NDS which unequivocally focused on deterring China and won him praise from neocons in both political parties. Colby, grandson of former CIA Director William Colby, followed this up with a highly influential book, “Strategy of Denial,” in which he advocated turning the U.S. focus toward China and away from Europe and the Middle East.

“If China succeeds,” he de

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