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Now Elbridge Colby is judging Pentagon Post number three after a controversial battle in the Senate ended with a vote for confirmation of its role.
The Senate voted from 51 to 45 years to confirm the strategist of the National Security Deputy Defense Ministry, and the three Democrats have joined most Republicans who vote in favor. Senator Mitch McConselle, Resp., Was a lonely republican without voting.
Kolbi successfully overcame Skepticism from Gop Hawks, like Senator Tom Cotton, R-ARK.
“The long public record of Elbridge Kolbi suggests the willingness to reduce the complexity of the problems facing America, the critical value of our allies and partners, as well as the need to invest in tough force for the US Championship,” McCainel said in a statement after the voting.
“The priorities, which Mr. Colby claims, is fresh, new and necessary,” it is, in fact, a return to the concept of Obama A-Carte-Geastritis. “
Colbi, co -founder of “Marathon Initiative” and former Deputy Assistant Minister of Defense for Strategy and Development for the Trump administration, most famous for its role in authorship of the National Defense Strategy 2018, which is reoriented to a long -term military strategy for with China.
Now Elbridge Kolby will take over the three Pentagon number after the controversial battle in the Senate ended with a vote to confirm its roles. (Dominic Gwin/Middle East Image/AFP via Getty Images)
It has long been arguing US military personnel It is necessary to limit its resources in the Middle East to turn into the Indo-Pacific region. In Kolbi, there was unwavering support from Trump’s inner circle that rose to the Senate Republicans’ heat to keep up with it.
Kolbi hardened some of his previous statements, including the one that offered to live with nuclear Iran, was safer than the bombing of Iran’s nuclear monuments, and the one that offered the United States to “live without” Taiwan.
By pressing cotton while hearing confirmation, Kolbi said Iran is an “existential” threat to the US
“Yes, Iran with a nuclear armed armed armed armed, especially the senator, given that … we know that they worked on ICBM capabilities and other existential danger to the US,” Kolbi said.
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Kolbi had unwavering support for Trump’s inner circle, including JD Vance Vice President. (Kent Nichemur/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
He promised to give the president “reliable good military options” when diplomacy With Iran does not work.
“The only thing that is worse than Iran’s prospect, armed with nuclear weapons, will be (the) consequences of using force to try to stop them,” Kolbi said in 2012.
“I would say that much of what I was arguing at the time, these conversations 15 years ago, many opponents I felt, had random, or in some cases even a capricious attitude towards the employment of military forces,” – explained Kolbi at the hearing. “It’s a lot of what I argued with. Has my wording always? Was my accurate framing always fit?”
Senator Tom Cotton pressed Kolbi on his past comments to Iran. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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“Your views on The importance of Taiwan The United States seems to be much mitated, “said the chairman of the armed service, Roger Wicker at one point.
“What I tried to remove the signal is that it is vital to focus and include our own strength to effectively and reasonably defend Taiwan and Taiwanese, as well as the Japanese to do more,” Kolbi said.
