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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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Taliban security personnel stand guard in the Guzara District, Afghanistan, on April 30, 2024. (Photo by Mohsen Karimi/AFP via Getty Images)
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US Army Soldiers, salute a World War II veteran in France on June 6, 2024. (US Army photo by Sgt. Landon Carter)
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A baby stroller, along with other personal belongings are left on the side of the road on October 10, 2023, in Kfar Aza, Israel. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld via Getty Images)
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M142 HIMARS launches a rocket on December 29, 2023 in Ukraine. (Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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A Short-Range Reconnaissance quadcopter in Fort Dix, New Jersey, on May 9, 2024. (Daniel Amburg via DVIDS)
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Taliban security forces demonstrate their skills during the ceremony in Guzara district of Herat province on June 22, 2023. (Mohsen Karimi/AFP via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin attends the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2024. (Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks through the scope as he shoots a Chukavin sniper rifle during a visit to the military Patriot Park in Kubinka, outside Moscow, on September 19, 2018. (Photo by Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
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A US and a Chinese flag wave outside a commercial building in Beijing, July 9, 2007. (TEH ENG KOON/AFP via Getty Images)
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An aerial view of General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard on March 20, 2020, in San Diego, California. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
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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
