
Jennifer Kavanagh
@jekavanagh
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Senior Fellow & Director of Military Analysis @Defpriorities. Formerly @CarnegieEndow @RANDCorporation. Tweets on U.S. defense policy & military strategy.
Washington, DC
Joined July 2012
The past 2 weeks underscored the risks that come w/ having U.S. military forces in the ME. They played little role in the U.S. strike on Iran, but became a costly vulnerability when Iran retaliated. @dandcaldwell & I argue in @washingtonpost that it's time to bring them home.
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RT @MartinDiCaro: I recommend this piece by @jekavanagh. In my view, the result of the two "summits" was negligible. Little has changed: P….
responsiblestatecraft.org
Last week's summit revealed just how little leverage the US has, while Europe looks panicked, and Zelensky is painted into a corner
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RT @tparsi: In a few hours, France, Germany, and the UK (E3) will trigger snapback sanctions on Iran at the UN. This will launch a 30-day p….
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RT @AaronBlake: Just a remarkable shift on military aid to Israel here. Americans now oppose it about 2-to-1. (Via @QuinnipiacPoll) https….
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RT @zpaikin: “Europeans are fooling themselves if they think Trump, who has been unwilling to impose economic penalties on Moscow, would re….
responsiblestatecraft.org
Last week's summit revealed just how little leverage the US has, while Europe looks panicked, and Zelensky is painted into a corner
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RT @GuyReuters: KREMLIN ON POSSIBLE SECURITY GUARANTEE FOR UKRAINE: THERE SHOULD BE NO WESTERN TROOPS IN UKRAINE - THESE ARE NATO MEMBERS.
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RT @RStatecraft: NEW @jekavanagh @defpriorities on why Putin walked away the winner and US is looking around for its leverage. https://t.co….
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This force, if it materializes, deters nothing. It won't be enough for Ukraine to accept concessions & will ensure Russia keeps fighting. This is a net loss for Kyiv, which doesn't have time on its side.
NEW: US has offered to provide a European-led Ukraine peace force with intelligence & surveillance capacities, command & control assets & air defence components in a big shift for Trump & win for Nato & Kyiv, officials tell @HenryJFoy and me. via @FT.
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RT @dandcaldwell: Some of the European leaders who are most vocally demanding Article 5-like security guarantees for Ukraine are also the l….
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Do it. I would love the chance to write about the $1 trillion U.S. "war budget.".
Pres. Trump at two White House events on Monday indicated that the Department of Defense may change its name to the Department of War. The Defense Department was created as the Department of War in 1789. It was later reorganized and renamed after WWII.
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RT @ClarkeDynamics: A bold plan from @defpriorities, authored by.@jekavanagh & @dandcaldwell, to realign U.S. military posture with core in….
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RT @JustinTLogan: Come work at @CatoFP:. We are hiring a research associate. More info:
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The Cato Institute is seeking a Research Associate to join the Institute’s Defense and Foreign Policy Studies (DFP) department. Cato’s foreign and defense policies are guided by the view that the...
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RT @RStatecraft: NEW @KelleyBVlahos : three years after the world insisted that Russia exploded its own pipelines Germany arrests fmr. Ukra….
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Also super important to note that at this point Ukraine has very few of these missiles left, far too few for any sort of strategic impact. The escalation risks far exceed any benefits of one-off long-range strikes.
Good. This isn't really the US 'blocking' Ukraine, it's the US refusing to actively participate in long-range strikes on Russia that require US targeting intel—the kind of strikes that Moscow considers joint NATO-Ukrainian attacks on the Russian Federation.
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RT @dandcaldwell: This isn't surprising at all. The Russians have shown a remarkable ability to adapt their TTPs and equipment to counter N….
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RT @DanLamothe: The military vehicle involved in this accident was an M-ATV, with a V-shaped hull designed to deflect bomb blasts. The M-A….
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RT @AKDay89: This has been the consistent position of the Kremlin, reaffirmed by the foreign ministry in recent days, so why have we been p….
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RT @DanLamothe: Per D.C. National Guard, one of the vehicles in this accident was an M-ATV, an armored tactical vehicle with a V-shaped hul….
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RT @yarotrof: The only real security guarantee for Ukraine is a strong Ukrainian army with weapons that can wreck the Russian economy and h….
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