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An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
Defense Strategy
Defense Strategy
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An Indian paramilitary trooper stands alert in Srinagar on May 10, 2025. (Saqib Majeed via Getty Images)
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Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) Leaders' Summit in Oslo on May 9, 2025. (Alastair Grant via Getty Images)
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A recruit of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade takes a break in a dugout during field tactical training at an undisclosed location in the Donetsk Region, Ukraine, on May 1, 2025 (Genya Savilov via Getty Images)
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The Virginia-class attack submarine Minnesota is under construction at Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. (US Navy photo courtesy of Newport News Shipbuilding)
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Indian Border Security Force personnel and Pakistani Rangers lower their respective flags during the daily beating retreat ceremony at the India-Pakistan Wagah Post on August 15, 2021. (Narinder Nanu via Getty Images)
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Airmen store an F-15C Eagle in a hardened aircraft shelter in preparation for Typhoon Maria on July 9, 2018, at Kadena Air Base, Japan. (DVIDS)
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Ukrainian soldiers receive training in trench digging, medical care, and drone operations in Kurakhove, Ukraine, on January 16, 2025. (Wolfgang Schwan via Getty Images)
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Aerial view of the shipyards of the Kaiser Shipbuilding Corporation in Vancouver, Washington, in 1943–44. (Getty Images)
Experts
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Komei Isozaki
Japan Chair Fellow
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Dan Patt
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
David Rader
Senior Fellow
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
