Elbridge Colby on the Opportunities of the “Donroe Doctrine”
The greater U.S. focus on the Western Hemisphere signals a “fundamental change” in the region, writes the U.S. Under Secretary of War for Policy in a guest op-ed.
Earlier this month, I represented the Department of War and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth at the 17th Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas (CDMA) in Cusco, Peru. There, I sought to lay out for the Western Hemisphere, on behalf of the Department, what we regard as a historic opportunity for the United States and its regional neighbors to work together, based on a realistic, pragmatic approach grounded in our shared enlightened self-interest. Much has changed in the Western Hemisphere since the first CDMA meeting in 1995, at the height of the so-called “unipolar...
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