“This means, if weapons and strategy are not prevailing on Ukraine’s side, then he is responsible for providing more strategy and more weapons,” Kwiatkowski, a former US Department of Defense analyst, elaborates.
Cavoli’s track record, she points out, already includes “the expansion of NATO membership to Finland and Sweden, [forced] modernization of NATO equipment and practices as a result of clearing stores of older and incompatible equipment on the Ukrainian meat-grinder.”
“He is hoping his legacy is a path to NATO for Ukraine, with NATO-compliant and inter-operative systems expanded into what is left of Ukraine. He’s quite up front with his vision, having written a 4000-page plan for exactly this. DC will give him an A for effort,” Kwiatkowski suggests.
The list of weapons Cavoli included in “an annex attached to a classified report about the Biden administration’s Ukraine strategy that was delivered to Congress early last month,” which supposedly could bolster Ukrainian forces’ effectiveness, includes Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile and Link 16 communication system, CNN reports citing sources familiar with the matter.