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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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Detainees kneel during early morning Islamic prayer on October 28, 2009 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (John Moore/Getty Images)
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The Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle. (USAF/Getty Images)
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An MQ-9 Reaper takes off August 8, 2007 at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
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Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with Noble Energy CEO Charles Davidson April 10, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images)
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U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House February 23, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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An image made available by propaganda Islamist media outlet Welayat Tarablos on February 18, allegedly shows members of the Islamic State militant group parading in a street in Libya's coastal city of Sirte. (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES)
Experts
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Jeremy Hunt
Media Fellow
Komei Isozaki
Japan Chair Fellow
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
Senior Fellow
John Lee
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Aaron MacLean
Senior Fellow
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Aparna Pande
Research Fellow, India and South Asia
Dan Patt
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Joel Rayburn
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
Timothy A. Walton
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
