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US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and US President Donald Trump hold a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
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Ukrainian military walk through the destruction after a large scale Russian attack on a residential complex on March 10, 2025, in Dobropillia, Ukraine. (Paula Bronstein via Getty Images)
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Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force tank landing ship JS Kunisaki breaks away from the formation after a group sail on July 22, 2024, off the coast of Hawaii during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024. (US Air Force photo)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with Yevgeny Balitsky in Moscow on November 18, 2024. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2025. (Bryan Dozier/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017. (Jorge Silva/AFP via Getty Images)
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93rd Brigade training with an International M1224 MaxxPro Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected infantry transport vehicle and two Soviet BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on February 27, 2025. (Jose Colon/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech on defence and security spending during a press conference at the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London on February 25, 2025. (Leon Neal/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev attend a welcoming ceremony prior to their talks at the Ak Orda Presidential Palace, on November 27, 2024, in Astana, Kazakhstan. (Getty Images)
Experts
David Byrd
Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Bryan Clark
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Ian Crone
Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Jack David
Senior Fellow and Trustee
