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A US infantryman releases a Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft system for a test flight at Fort Irwin in California on October 25, 2025. (US Army)
Defense Strategy
Defense Strategy
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Japanese soldiers listen to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Ground Self-Defence Force's Asaka training ground on October 27, 2013. (TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Yemenis at the site of a car bomb attack in the northern Al Jaraf neighbourhood of Sanaa, Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Brigadier General Hossein Salami (Fars News Agency/Wikimedia)
Commentary
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A man looks at drones on display at the International Drone Expo 2015 at Makuhari Messe on May 21, 2015 in Chiba, Japan. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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China's first aircraft carrier, a former Soviet carrier called the Varyag, docked after its handover to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) navy in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning province, September 24, 2012. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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
