RETIRED MEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GREENWICH, Inc. (RMA)
Invites you to its meeting, July 8, 2026, at 11 am at Christ Church, Parish Hall, 254 East Putnam Ave., Greenwich. The program will also be shown on Zoom (click here for live feed), and on local cable channels 24 (Verizon) and 79 (Optimum)
Jennifer Kavanagh, PhD.
“Why The United States Would Be Safer With a Smaller Military”
Jennifer Kavanagh is a Senior Fellow and Director of Military Analysis at Defense Priorities, a Washington think tank that studies military affairs. A political scientist by training, Kavanagh has spent her career studying U.S. national security and defense policy. Her research focuses on U.S. military strategy, force structure, defense budgeting, the defense industrial base including U.S. military deployments and interventions.
Previously, Kavanagh was a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She also worked as a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, where she led projects for defense and national security clients. She served for three years as director of RAND’s Army Strategy program.
She is co-author of the book Truth Decay, and her work has been published in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Washington Quarterly, Lawfare, and The Los Angeles Times, among other outlets. She has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Bloomberg News, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, and numerous other broadcast media.
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 a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an Adjunct Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University.
Our next presentation, on July 15, is by retired media executive and author William Baker, PhD, “Leading with Kindness: How Good People Consistently Get Superior Results”
The Greenwich Retired Men’s Association offers a free program every Wednesday that is open to the public, both men and women; no reservations are required. Our social break starts at 10:40 am followed promptly by our presentation at 11:00. For additional information, including parking, see www.greenwichrma.org/upcoming-speakers.
