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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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A 1912 illustration from Puck magazine shows Theodore Roosevelt passing between two rows of kings, emperors, military leaders, statesmen, and others. (Udo Keppler via Library of Congress)
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Stickers sit on a table during in-person absentee voting on November 1, 2024, in Little Chute, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson via Getty Images)
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A television news screen in Seoul, South Korea, on March 17, 2023, shows a picture of North Korea's test-firing of a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)
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Former US President Donald Trump points to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as he speaks on October 17, 2024, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)
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Russian infantry in the trenches during their battle against the Austro-Hungarian army on the eastern front in World War I in August 1914. (Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)
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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a press conference a day after Japan's lower house election on October 28, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. (Kim Kyung-Hoon via Getty Images)
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State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller speaks on the Iranian missile attacks on Israel on October 1, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images)
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Former President Donald Trump walks off stage at the end of a campaign rally on October 5, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images)
Experts
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
John Fonte
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for American Common Culture
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
