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A US infantryman releases a Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft system for a test flight at Fort Irwin in California on October 25, 2025. (US Army)
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Barry conducts routine underway operations in the South China Sea on November 21, 2020. (Molly Crawford via DVIDS)
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Amid intensifying threats military from China, Taiwanese soldiers carrying artillery to tanks during the two-day live-fire drill in Pingtung, Taiwan, on September 7, 2022. (Photo by Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Common Mission Control Center at Beale Air Force Base in California on March 2021. (US Air Force Photo)
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Ukrainian soldiers use an armored engineer vehicle based on a Leopard tank chassis to pull their comrades car from a ditch on May 11, 2023. (Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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Three of the four Apollo 13 flight directors applaud the successful splashdown of the Command Module Odyssey on April 17, 1970. (NASA via Getty Images)
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US Marine Corps recruits with Delta Company participate in the “stairway to heaven” challenge on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, on July 29, 2022. (Cristian G. Torres via DVIDS)
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Joe Biden speaks to service members and their families on June 9, 2023, at Fort Liberty, North Carolina. (Eros Hoagland via Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin greets nuclear weapons developer Yuri Barmakov during the State Awarding Ceremony at the Grand Kremlin Palace on June 12, 2022, in Moscow. (via Getty Images)
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US Navy aircraft rest on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Philippine Sea on May 11, 2023. (David Rowe via DVIDS)
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People shelter in a subway station during Russian missiles attack on May 29, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Roman Pilipey 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
