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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
Defense Strategy
Defense Strategy
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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photograph from the International Space Station on Oct. 7, 2015.
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A S-200 surface-to-air missile is driven past Iranian military commanders during the annual military parade on September 22, 2015, in the capital Tehran. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Titan nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile in silo in Arizona (Photo by Michael Dunning/Getty Images)
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The first two American F-35A Lightning II fighter jets land in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, on May 23, 2016. (Photo: EVERT-JAN DANIELS/AFP/Getty Images)
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President Barack Obama in the Oval Office September 27, 2013 in Washington D.C. (Pete Souza/White House via Getty Images)
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A long-range ground-based interceptor is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, January 28, 2016. (MDA/Released)
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Police officers and rescue workers stand near a van that ploughed into a crowd leaving a fireworks display in the French Riviera town of Nice on July 14, 2016. (VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Experts
David Byrd
Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Bryan Clark
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Jack David
Senior Fellow and Trustee
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
