The Pentagon’s top strategy official acknowledged that the US operations against Iran are outside the scope of the Trump administration’s plans to have allies and partners pick up more of the burden for collective security.
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby faced questions from both parties on the Trump administration’s recently unveiled National Defense Strategy and how the attacks against Iran squared with those plans.
“We obviously want allies and partners throughout to take general responsibility” for their own defense, he said Tuesday during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. That’s a “general theme” of the strategy and “it’s ...