Jennifer Kavanagh

Jennifer Kavanagh is a senior fellow and the director of military analysis at Defense Priorities. Her research looks at US military strategy, force structure and defence budgeting, the defence industrial base, and US military deployments and interventions.

Previously, Kavanagh was a senior fellow in the American Statecraft programme at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She also worked as a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, where she led projects for defence and national security clients. She served for three years as director of RAND’s Army Strategy programme. Her work has been published in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, Foreign Policy and Los Angeles Times among other outlets.

Kavanagh received an AB in government from Harvard University and a PhD in political science and public policy from the University of Michigan. She is also a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an adjunct professor in the Security Studies programme at Georgetown University.