Excellent use of graphics from IISS News to sort out the accreting alphabet soup of EU defense institutions and, just as important, the money involved.

EU to exclude US, UK and Turkey from €150bn rearmament fund on.ft.com/3DDRzHL

[Analysis] #EUDefence: A transatlantic #Defense industrial base? Two contrasting views, by Jonathan Caverley, Ethan B. Kapstein, Elie Tenenbaum and Léo Peria-Peigné | Institut français des relations internationales pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-analys…

“Amateurs worry about strategy. Dilettantes worry about tactics. Professionals worry about logistics.”

"Despite the tendency of USN leaders to glorify the achievements of the [U.S. Naval] War College in the 1920s and 1930s, it is the PLAN—not the U.S. Navy—whose midcareer officer education more closely resembles the practices of that era." cimsec.org/war-without-su…

If you liked this, check out the original article in U.S. Naval War College Review: digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewconten…

If you send my your mailing address, I will update it in the Review mailing list! Jon

In shipbuilding, especially icebreakers, the U.S. is the junior industrial partner (playing the role in ICE Pact that Australia plays in AUKUS). It needs to avoid the mistakes its clients often make when buying American: foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/12/ice…

I’m accustomed to charts of range rings emanating from the “bad guys’” territory, and was unprepared for how unsettling I found this graphic in an excellent new report from IISS News. I understand the need for European rearming but am also saddened by it. iiss.org/research-paper…

Absolute pleasure to travel to 🇰🇷 last wk at the invitation of the 대한민국 해군 Chief of Navy, Admiral Yang Yong-mo to speak at the ROK Navy Seapower Symposium Joining a fantastic panel including Jonathan Caverley , Martin Sebastian & aptly moderated by Cha Du Hyeogn we discussed

At the NATO Summit 2025 - The Hague the European members signaled their intention to increase their defense spending. But does this imply strengthening European strategic autonomy, or further developing the transatlantic industrial base? 🔎 Analysis in this study ⤵️ ifri.org/en/studies/tra…

We were lucky enough to have our YouGov/The Economist poll in field when the US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. You can see the partisan realignment in real time

.cdrsalamander to the Navy when he hears about the hard kill Mk58 NIXIE: navalnews.com/naval-news/202…

Sheena Chestnut Greitens Nick Anderson Jonathan Caverley (Jonathan Caverley) uses a "kill chain" model to compare the potential effect of Chinese military capabilities, with and without Taiwan, on the contested zone where U.S. and allied forces would operate. tnsr.org/2025/06/so-wha…

Thanks Tom! The piece would not have been possible without the deep subject matter expertise of my colleague Mike Petersen at CNA. #GIDSstatement

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In our latest podcast, Jon Caverley (Jonathan Caverley) discusses how there are ways the US military can help Taiwan defend itself without undermining US capabilities for a wider and lengthier conflict.

Did I like starring at my massive grape in this clip? No. Did Texas National Security Review do a great job capturing my argument in a smart, wide-ranging conversation with Sheena Chestnut Greitens and Ryan Vest? Absolutely!

I mean, the US is decades behind in this sort of thing, but credit where due: U.S. Naval Shipyards Accelerating Outsourcing for New Construction Programs news.usni.org/2025/09/12/u-s…

Honestly never seen anything like this- a campaign advertisement for Gen. Thomas Bussiere to be Chief of Staff of the Air FOrce.