Elbridge Colby, a restraint-minded defense strategist some Republicans were skeptical of, will now serve in Pentagon's No. 3 post after a successful Senate vote.

Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby, who played a key role in crafting the 2018 National Defense Strategy, will lead the new NDS effort.

The vote for Elbridge Colby on Tuesday was 54-45, with Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky as the only Republican voting against him.

The Senate voted largely along party lines to approve Elbridge Colby’s nomination to serve as the Pentagon’s under secretary for ...

The NDS serves as a road map for the Department of Defense, providing broad guidance for military planning, strategy, force ...

Elbridge Colby, a key architect of U.S. military strategy on China and Taiwan, cleared a major hurdle in the Senate with a cloture vote advancing his nomination to a senior Pentagon post.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the development of the Pentagon's 2025 National Defense Strategy (NDS) to ...

South Korea and the United States agreed to further cooperate to achieve shared security goals on the Korean Peninsula and in ...

A majority of the U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Elbridge Colby, a former Department of Defense official known as a China hawk, as undersecretary of defense for policy, the Pentagon's No. 3 ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the development of the Pentagon's 2025 National Defense Strategy (NDS) to ...