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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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US Marines formed as an Electronic Warfare Support Team with 2nd Radio Battalion, II Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, near Setermoen, Norway, March 14, 2020. (US Marine Corps).
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Britain's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives in New York on October 19, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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US Army drones at the Al Asad Airbase in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, January 2020. (Ayman Henna/AFP via Getty Images)
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U.S. Air Force photo by SSgt Christopher Ruano
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A view of the Pentagon Memorial honoring the 184 lives lost during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Russian soldiers stand near a Topol-M ICBM while participating in a rehearsal for the nation's Victory Day parade outside Moscow in Alabino on April 22, 2008.
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The U.S. tests a hypersonic glide body March 19, 2020, from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii.
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US Navy USS Donald Cook class guided missile destroyer during an exercise how simulate a humanitarian response to a powerful earthquake and significant movement of IDF vessels and foreign vessels in the Mediterranean sea
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The authors argue that more funding should be driven by combatant commanders such as U.S. Central Command's Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, seen here boarding a UH-60 Black Hawk in Saudi Arabia in 2020.
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
