January 23, 2019
Strategizing around increasing defense threats & shrinking budgets
In this two-part interview, Elbridge Colby, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development and director of the defense program at the Center for a New American Security discusses the intersection between the National Defense Strategy and the 2020 budget.
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