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A see-off ceremony for newly recruited soldiers is held on September 16, 2025, in Fuyang, China. (Getty Images)
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An F/A-18E Super Hornet lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the South China Sea on June 5, 2025. (US Navy)
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Smoke rises over the government headquarters in Kyiv following Russian drone and missile strikes on September 7, 2025. (Getty Images)
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A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
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A soldier from the 47th Brigade's mortar crew, Varvara with the call sign 'Kosa', aims a mortar for firing on August 12, 2025 in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (Vitalii Nosach via Getty Images)
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An employee works on the production line at a biolab on January 4, 2023, in Hengyang, China. (Peng Bin via Getty Images)
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European leaders join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
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US Air Force F-35A Lightning II aircraft sit on the flight line at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida on August 28, 2025. (DVIDS)
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A sunflower grows in front of a house damaged by a Russian drone attack in Dnipro, Ukraine. (Mykola Miakshykov via Getty Images)
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In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin enters a hall to meet with graduates of higher military educational institutions at the Kremlin on June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via 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
