SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service Make Sure Emergency Measures for the Common Good Supersede Hyperinflation and Geopolitical Madness June 1, 2021 (EIRNS)—Today on a broadcast from Asia, the man considered the author of the triumphalist U.S. National Defense Strategy issued in January, 2018, Elbridge Colby, declared that there are no grounds for any U.S. foreign relations, except maintaining U.S. preparedness to win conventional wars and, when necessary, to conduct nuclear war. Colby is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Deployment. He was the featured guest on this morning’s program hosted by the Asia Times, titled, “What Might Start a Pacific War, and Who Would Win It.”