
Elbridge Colby clears hurdle, moves to final vote to become Pentagon's top policy strategist
Fox News
The Senate has advanced Elbridge Colby's nomination for a top Pentagon position with a cloture vote, moving the national security strategist closer to confirmation.
Colby, a co-founder of the Marathon Initiative and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development under the Trump administration, is best known for his role in authoring the 2018 National Defense Strategy, which reoriented long-term military strategy toward a great power competition with China.
He has long argued the U.S. military needs to limit its resources in the Middle East in a pivot to the Indo-Pacific region.
Colby has scored staunch backing from a number of figures in Trump world, increasing the pressure on GOP skeptics to get on board with his nomination.