Disputed DOD nominee is 'best person' to implement Trump and Hegseth agenda, key conservative group says

The Heritage Foundation is throwing its support behind Elbridge Colby to serve as undersecretary for defense policy in the Trump administration, though GOP senators are skeptical.

"For far too long, the United States has employed the Department of Defense – and the men and women of the U.S. military – to engage in activities that were not central to American interests," the letter read. 

"From peacekeeping operations in far-flung theaters, to nation-building among cultures riddled with ethno-sectarian and religious strife, to democracy building in areas with no history of the rule of law, the Department of Defense has spent much of the post-Cold War era expending resources and American lives in conducting operations that are tangential to U.S. interests."