Will America pivot back to President Obama’s “pivot to Asia”? A battle royale is brewing around President Trump’s nominee to serve as policy chief in the Department of Defense, Elbridge Colby. A grandson of the CIA director in the 1970s, William Colby, the 45-year-old widely known as Bridge pursues policy tenets that  might be summed up, to paraphrase the Godfather’s Peter Clemenza, as “leave the Middle East, take China.”