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Jonathan Caverley

@jcaverley

US Naval War College professor and interim Press Editor in Chief. Opinions are mine.

Newport, RI Beigetreten Mart 2010
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In @SurvivalEditors w/ Ethan Kapstein: Europe’s rearming & US shift to other theaters allow a better #NATO division of labor—EU industry/land power + US R&D/strategic enablers—to meet members’ regional AND global goals. Pace Kagan, we’re all Martians now! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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@shashj I hope the fact that my family gives up on it after the first hour is not dispositive!
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@tshugart3 @jcaverley @TXNatSecReview And more importantly undermines fundamentally American credibility with ROK and especially Japan. That’s the key to unravel projection. Missile ranges aren’t the endgame they are the first step in a cognitive dismantling of the value of US guarantees to the key enablers.
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This @WSJ article’s maps undercut its claim that Taiwan's conquest will allow China to “dominate the region’s strategic waterways, project military power widely into the Pacific and more aggressively pursue its contested maritime and territorial claims." wsj.com/world/asia/chi…
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Dominating the water- and airspace far into the Pacific is a prerequisite for a successful PLA invasion, not vice versa. In the @TXNatSecReview, I argue that Taiwan does not change the military balance either way. tnsr.org/2025/06/so-wha…
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As @tshugart3 notes, the just-released China Military Power Report assesses that current mainland PLAN capability could "seriously challenge and disrupt" U.S. forces out to 1500-2000 nm. Taiwan bumps out these range rings by a vanishingly small margin. x.com/tshugart3/stat…
Tom Shugart@tshugart3

The new report also states that China has been practicing components of all of its options to force Taiwan unification, including strikes on U.S. forces in the Pacific that could "seriously challenge and disrupt" them out to 1500-2000 nm.

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Elsewhere I've argued that the fleet is a nation's grand strategy manifest in steel, because it endures for decades. The late Cold War's carrier-centric Navy defined unipolar power projection. Procurement decisions like these are thus very consequential. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
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Distributed Maritime Operations is not possible with these future crewed classes alone. It will require a new concept of operations or *lots* of fast, robustly networked, uncrewed vessels loaded w/ missiles. That was probably always the case to an extent, but this burns bridges.
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Diverging defence priorities, coupled with European rearmament, are reducing the free-rider problem that has long strained the relationship between the United States and European NATO | Analysis by @jcaverley and Ethan B. Kapstein | FREE TO READ | go.iiss.org/4poJitA
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Diverging defence priorities, coupled with European rearmament, are reducing the free-rider problem that has long strained the relationship between the United States and European NATO | Analysis by @jcaverley and Ethan B. Kapstein | FREE TO READ | go.iiss.org/4poJitA
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Diverging defence priorities, coupled with European rearmament, are reducing the free-rider problem that has long strained the relationship between the United States and European NATO | Analysis by @jcaverley and Ethan B. Kapstein | FREE TO READ | go.iiss.org/4poJitA
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If (a big if) South Korea has decided it needs nukes, for deterrence & strategic stability, it's better they be in a survivable, second-strike nuclear submarine. Improved conventional deterrence via a larger US submarine industrial base could be a secondary, stabilizing effect.
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Second, if (a big if) South Korea helping to fund an additional U.S. shipyard that can produce submarines would be an *enormous* development in the (very) long-term Indo-Pacific balance. I'm not sure it is worth the price in terms of proliferation, but...
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Jonathan Caverley@jcaverley·
Two thoughts on this news, besides🤷‍♂️. First, the expense of ROK nuclear-powered submarines only makes operational sense to me for a South Korean nuclear deterrent. While understandable at some level, proliferation is never a happy development.
Connor O'Brien@connorobrienNH

Trump said the US will share tech with South Korea to build a nuclear-powered sub. Trump said it will be built at the Philly Shipyard, owned by South Korea’s Hanwha. The yard isn’t currently equipped to handle nuclear material or build military ships. politico.com/news/2025/10/2…

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