Elbridge Colby, nominated by President Trump to serve as the under secretary of defense for policy, said today that developing the U.S. defense industrial base should be a key part of any new National Defense Strategy that makes deterring China its No. 1 priority. Colby, who led the development and rollout of the 2018 NDS -- which named China as the chief geopolitical competitor of the United States -- when he served at the Pentagon during the first Trump administration,...
