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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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Vehicles drive under a massive billboard that is displays an illustrated image of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps missiles in Tehran, Iran, on April 15, 2024. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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2023 年 4 月 21 日，在北卡罗来纳州勒琼营举行的技术操作实验活动 23.1 中，美国海军陆战队将无人 水面车辆“Amy”从水中移出。（美国海军陆战队照片）
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An Iranian citizen holds a placard in Tehran during a demonstration to support Iran's drone and missile attacks on Israel on April 15, 2024. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the House of Representatives at the US Capitol on April 11, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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A member of a Ukrainian artillery brigade during a training session near Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, on February 27, 2024. (Photo by Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty Images)
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Ukrainian servicemen fire a French-made CAESAR self-propelled howitzer toward Russian positions in eastern Ukraine on December 28, 2022. (Photo by Sameer al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian serviceman holds a Stinger anti-aircraft weapon onboard a Maritime Guard of the State Border Service of Ukraine boat as it patrols in the northwestern Black Sea on December 18, 2023. (Anatolii Stepanov via Getty Images)
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US and Chinese defense leadership meet in Beijing on June 27, 2018. (Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith via DVIDS)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with representatives from the American business, strategic, and academic communities at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 27, 2024. (Photo by Shen Hong via Getty Images)
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President Joe Biden listens to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a press conference at the Camp David Trilateral Summit in Maryland on August 18, 2023. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via 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
